The only Mac that runs games faster is a Mac Pro with the Radeon HD 4870. And for $50 more, you can have the 'smoking' Radeon HD 4850. That's the price of a 24' iMac with the GeForce 130 GT. The only caveat is that you will need to spend at least $1949 to get good 3D gaming performance from the newest iMacs. This page dramatically illustrates the progress Apple has made over the last few years in the graphics processor area. The 1280x800 setting is a "common denominator" for comparing old and new Macs with different sized screens. The OpenGL Extensions Viewer graph shows the benchmark results for the OpenGL 2.1 extension in Fullscreen, with Standard Framebuffer, 4X Multisample, 8X Anisotropy, Fog and Transparency. Settings included 2X Multisample, and 4X Anisotropy.
MACBOOK PRO EARLY 2009 VS MID 2009 MOVIE
The X-Plane benchmark uses our record movie of the X-15 dropped from a bomber and diving for the mountains below. I2.0 R24 = mid 2007 iMac 2.0GHz with Radeon HD 2400 XT M2.4 94M = late 2008 MacBook 2.4GHz with GeForce 9400M P2.8 94M = late 2008 MacBook Pro 2.8GHz using GeForce 9400M I2.4 R26 = mid 2007 iMac 2.4GHz with Radeon HD 2400 XT I2.8 R26a = mid 2007 iMac 2.8GHz with Radeon HD 2600 Pro I2.8 R26b = early 2008 iMac 2.8GHz with Radeon HD 2600 I3.1 G8S = early 2008 iMac 3.06GHz with GeForce 8800 GS I3.1 G13 = early 2009 iMac 3.06GHz with GeForce 130 GT Plus used some older games since we have test data for older iMacs running them. In order to compare the newest iMac with the Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 130 GT to as many older Macs as possible - some with smaller than 24" displays - we ran some 3D Game benchmarks at 1280x800. Posted Wed, May 13th, 2009, by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist
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