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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by post_break on Thursday October 16, 2014 @04:54PM (#8467652)
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.

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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by vidoc on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:07PM (#8467730)
Considering the lack of games on the mac paltform, this should not be too much of a problem eh ?
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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by Alphasite_ on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:41PM (#8467950)
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.
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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by Spiritus on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:13AM (#8469781)
Well you have all of Blizzard's games, World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3...
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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by post_break on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:22PM (#8467831)
There are tons of current gens games for mac thanks to Steam and Mac ports.
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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by elif on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:33PM (#8468241)
not to mention running games with PlayOnMac (wine wrapper) or parallels. Honestly you can't name a game that won't play on mac.
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Re:iMac with Retina 5K display by steveotucker on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:47AM (#8471220)
Definitely disappointed with the GPU options, would have liked to have a beefier AMD option like the Mac Pro.
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