And in the case of Diablo III, the 2010 Mac Pro ran Diablo III faster booting into OS X than the 2013 Mac Pro with two CrossFired FirePro D700s booting into Windows 10. However, in 2 out of 3 cases, a 2010 Mac Pro with a single NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti overclocked GPU beat the 2013 Mac Pro. That's comforting to know if you spent big bucks for your 2013 'turbo tube.' Of the three GPU intensive games we chose, the 2013 Mac Pro with FirePro D700s ran them fastest when booting Windows 10 and enabling CrossFire mode in the AMD driver.

Settings were 2560x1440, Quality: HIGH, V-Sync: OFF, Anti-Aliasing: OFF. ( HIGHEST FPS means FASTEST )ĭiablo III - Our character in the Shattered Crown campaign searches for the Chancelor's Alther beneath the Cemetery of the Forsaken. Tomb Raider - The built-in benchmark was run at 2560x1440 using HIGH preset.

NMP 8c OSX = 'late 2013' Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon Dual FirePro D700 GPUs Mac OS X El CapitanĬMP 6c W10 = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 980 Ti Overclocked GPU Windows 7 UltimateĬMP 6c OSX = 'mid 2010' Mac Pro 3.33GHz 6-Core Xeon ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 980 Ti Overclocked GPU (requires NVIDIA web driver) Mac OS X El Capitanīatman: Arkham City - Using the built-in fly-through benchmark, we stipulated 2560x1440, Detail Level: HIGH, V-Sync: OFF, FXAA: OFF, All Effects: ON. NMP 8c W10 = 'late 2013' Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon Dual FirePro D700 GPUs Windows 10 with CrossFire DIS abled NMP 8c xFire = 'late 2013' Mac Pro 3.0GHz 8-Core Xeon Dual FirePro D700 GPUs Windows 10 with CrossFire EN abled Why? Because the dual FirePro GPUs are CrossFired. Posted February 5th, 2016 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientistĪs we mentioned in a recent article, the main justification for gaming on the 2013 Mac Pro cylinder is if you are running Windows in a Boot Camp partition.

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