Re:iMac with Retina 5K display
by post_break on Thursday October 16, 2014 @04:09PM
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Better spring for the 4GB video card, 5k is going to eat up 2GB of video memory fast.
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Better spring for the 4GB video card, 5k is going to eat up 2GB of video memory fast.
Can you elaborate on this, or link to someone who has elaborated on it?
Re:iMac with Retina 5K display
by post_break on Thursday October 16, 2014 @04:54PM
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That resolution will take a lot of vram to push. Start gaming or editing on it and it will get crushed. Most 290x's start at 4GB, why Apple chose 2GB I don't know.
http://www.digitalstormonline.com/unlocked/video-memory-usag...
Considering the lack of games on the mac paltform, this should not be too much of a problem eh ?
Re:iMac with Retina 5K display
by Alphasite_ on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:41PM
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Only 3090 on steam. Which is ~1/3 of the while windows back log. And a large chunk of the imported games are older games, so Linux and Mac both are making steady progress.
Well you have all of Blizzard's games, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3...
Re:iMac with Retina 5K display
by post_break on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:22PM
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There are tons of current gens games for mac thanks to Steam and Mac ports.
not to mention running games with PlayOnMac (wine wrapper) or parallels. Honestly you can't name a game that won't play on mac.
Re:iMac with Retina 5K display
by steveotucker on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:47AM
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Definitely disappointed with the GPU options, would have liked to have a beefier AMD option like the Mac Pro.