AMD vs Mac's

[Fadey]

Is there any site i can compare AMD's to Macs wuth latest graphics cards and chips?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Compare them in what sense?

 

[alimoalem]

FPS i would assume

 

[Fadey]

yeah fps in games like wow , fear , bf2 etc the newer stuff.

 

[lyssword]

that is, if all of those games are available for macs

 

[alcoholbob]

Well, software needs to be written optimized for each platform. This may be of no help, but when they were testing Macs vs Alphas (technological precusor to Athlons), the Alphas could run Mac software a hellaeva lot faster than Mac's could run PC software.

 

[Fadey]

bump ^^

 

[ribbon13]

You already got your answer: You can't compare a game that can't run on a Mac in the first place. i.e. WoW

So you bumped this why?

 

[Fadey]

Wow thats for your comment ribbon but i was only using wow as an example and just for the note WoW runs on Mac just like all of blizzards games..... I was curious to see how macs perform vs amd in the newer games.

 

[ribbon13]

Recognize facetiousness.

http://www.whatisfear.com/us/

No Mac.

http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/features.jsp

No Mac.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/games/oblivion_faq.htm

No Mac

http://thesims2.ea.com/

No Mac

http://www.guildwars.com/faq/default.html#support

No Mac

http://www.square-enix.com/na/game/online/

No Mac

 

[DrZoidberg]

Yeah Mac doesnt get much high end pc games released for it like BF2 and Fear.... Y buy a Mac to run games? Mac is more for graphic design, work or itunes

But u are right, most Blizzard games run on Mac, the install discs can be used on pc or mac, hybrid my friend likes to call it (he has a very expensive g5).

However AT has a WOW performance guide and they werent impressed with WOW performance on Mac.

Blizzard has also done a good job of providing Mac support for World of Warcraft. In fact, the same discs used to install the PC version will work in installing the Mac version of WoW. Unfortunately, Mac WoW performance is nothing to write home about. Performance on a dual G5 2.5GHz with an ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition is less than half of the performance of a single Athlon 64 4000+ and a Radeon X800 XT. The performance on slower video cards is just as disappointing. Blizzard has been active in improving Mac WoW performance, but the gap remains to be nothing short of huge. Mac OS X has never been known as a gaming platform of choice, but Mac users should at least be able to run the games to which they do have access at comparable frame rates to their PC counterparts. Regardless of whether the Mac WoW performance issues are the fault of Apple, Blizzard or the GPU vendors, they need to be fixed if any of the responsible companies actually care about that user base. WoW is quite playable on the Mac - it's just noticeably slower than on the PC.

link to WOW article

 

[Fadey]

thanks for the link DrZoidberg

 

[KoolDrew]

Macs suck for gaming. Not many games are relased and you would end up spending way more for less performance anyway.

 

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