I’m running Boot Camp and a clean install of Windows 7 圆4 on both Macs for the comparison. The second is Apple’s new 2010 13-inch MacBook Pro with a GeForce 320M. The first is a Nehalem Mac Pro with an EVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition.Ģ x 2.93GHz Quad-Core Nehalem Xeon ProcessorsĮVGA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition (1GB GDDR3) Now that 1) I’m back, and 2) Half Life 2 Episode 2 is out for the Mac, I can provide an updated comparison using another reference point between Steam on both OSes.įor this comparison I’m using two systems. Ryan’s original article used a Hackintosh to compare OS X and Windows performance. You’re just better off playing those games in Windows using Boot Camp. To Valve’s credit, games like Portal are more than playable at good looking settings on modern Macs. In the process of porting the Source engine to OS X a great deal of performance was lost. After reading Ryan’s Mac OS X Portal Performance article when I got back, I understood why. I actually contacted Valve ahead of time to see if they’d give me access to a pre-release version so I could do a performance article before I left. I did miss one rather important thing: the launch of an OS X version of Steam. Last year I threw a dart at the calendar and told myself I was taking 10 days off in May and thankfully, there wasn’t too much that was announced while I was gone. Planning around tradeshows is easy, but planning around unannounced product launches, new driver releases, bugs and unexpected discoveries is impossible.
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