Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="lonewolf" data-source="post: 1254656" data-attributes="member: 191571">iMac 27&quot; 6770mI've been a bit curious about this too.&nbsp; The problem with SC 2 benchmarks is that everyone has their own replay file.&nbsp; The use of a replay file may skew the bench results anyway, simply due to the fact that the CPU isn't having to actually calculate pathing and such.&nbsp; That said, I ran some tests at native res on a 27&quot; 2011 6770m (2560x1440) with 12GB of RAM.&nbsp; I did shut down any misc programs running, but I didn't go so far as to shut down any 'extra' stuff I have that always runs, like bonjour or plex media manager.With extreme and ultra settings on a replay at 2x speed, which gave an FPS of 18-21.&nbsp; It didn't seem to make a lot of different how much was going on on the screen, and there was no discerenable difference between ultra and extreme.At High settings native res, it was slightly faster.&nbsp; I was running between 19 and 22 fps. At Medium suddenly the FPS stayed at 29 most of the time, with a range of 27-31.&nbsp; This was perfectly smooth gameplay imo.None of these are really 'unplayable' for an RTS type game, but I think the medium / native 2580x1440 res or dropping down to 1920x1080 at the ultra settings yields the best gameplay on this particular iMac.&nbsp; To be honest, I cannot see much difference between 1920x1080 and 2580x1440 within the game.&nbsp; The difference is startling on the OS X desktop though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lonewolf, post: 1254656, member: 191571"] [b]iMac 27" 6770m[/b] I've been a bit curious about this too. The problem with SC 2 benchmarks is that everyone has their own replay file. The use of a replay file may skew the bench results anyway, simply due to the fact that the CPU isn't having to actually calculate pathing and such. That said, I ran some tests at native res on a 27" 2011 6770m (2560x1440) with 12GB of RAM. I did shut down any misc programs running, but I didn't go so far as to shut down any 'extra' stuff I have that always runs, like bonjour or plex media manager. With extreme and ultra settings on a replay at 2x speed, which gave an FPS of 18-21. It didn't seem to make a lot of different how much was going on on the screen, and there was no discerenable difference between ultra and extreme. At High settings native res, it was slightly faster. I was running between 19 and 22 fps. At Medium suddenly the FPS stayed at 29 most of the time, with a range of 27-31. This was perfectly smooth gameplay imo. None of these are really 'unplayable' for an RTS type game, but I think the medium / native 2580x1440 res or dropping down to 1920x1080 at the ultra settings yields the best gameplay on this particular iMac. To be honest, I cannot see much difference between 1920x1080 and 2580x1440 within the game. The difference is startling on the OS X desktop though. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Name this item 🌈