Macbook Retina Gaming Q&A

Supercow said:
Cheers Mark!
Out of interest, how much Hard drive allocation did you assign your Bootcamp partition?

It's been some time since I've had a windows machine with games installed and have no idea how much space a PC with 3 (ish) games installed + Office etc would take.
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I split it 50/50 - At the moment with Max Payne, Amalur, Fifa, MW3 and a few small steam games I have about 20gb left on Windows and with my final cut pro and aperture stuff on mac, about 40gb left on that.

KiiYzOo said:
You can install stem games and run them on an external drive to cut down the partition size, although the loading times will be longer
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I intend to buy a USB3 drive for steam and move everything over to that to give me more mac space on the SSD.
 
Metalface Mark said:
I intend to buy a USB3 drive for steam and move everything over to that to give me more mac space on the SSD.
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This is what I'm planning to do too when I get mine, although I want to get either a usb3 or thunderbolt 2.5" caddy, then put a 240gb minimum ssd in it, to speed up data transfer :)
 
What does it score in Cinebench on the OpenGL and CPU tests?

The retina MacBook Pro has a higher clocked GPU so just wondering how it compares to my non-retina but with a higher CPU clock.
 
Logsi said:
What does it score in Cinebench on the OpenGL and CPU tests?

The retina MacBook Pro has a higher clocked GPU so just wondering how it compares to my non-retina but with a higher CPU clock.
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I'd be interested in this too. If you do run Cinebench be sure to post your results in my benchmark thread. Ta!
 
Supercow said:
Is the heat of any concern - always a little bit nervous the GFX card will spaz out due to heat.
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Not really, you have to think that its designed to run at these temperatures, Ive not had any graphic corruption, thats what the warranty is for anyway, I bought mine through education so I get a 3 year warranty with it.

The only real problem I find is that the keys get a bit hot for a longer session, but i found if you turn off the backlight it tones it down a bit (although this may just be my imagination!).

I havent tried overclocking yet, I dont know if its really worth while since most stuff runs very well.
 
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Cinebench - GPU - 43.85
CPU - 6.08 points.

Im not sure if its using the nvidia or onboard gpu - fan doesnt kick on like it does when you 3d game.

I have no idea if those are good or bad. I suspect its onboard, as I overclocked a wee bit and it came up identically.
 
With afterburner, after a ten minute max payne 3 session, temp sticks at about 79c - so its not overly hot.

Also worth noting when you overclock by 50hz on core and 100hz on memory, it changes nothing in regards to the temp.

I dropped down to 1280x800 on max payne, didnt look much different from higher resolutions but ran at a constant 60fps at high with vsync on.
 
the cpu is more powerful than my stock 3570k!!

btw, the gpu is alright considering my 5870 gets 70fps on cinebench
 
Metalface Mark said:
Cinebench - GPU - 43.85
CPU - 6.08 points.

Im not sure if its using the nvidia or onboard gpu - fan doesnt kick on like it does when you 3d game.

I have no idea if those are good or bad. I suspect its onboard, as I overclocked a wee bit and it came up identically.
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Is that Cinebench under windows or OS X?

Soldierknowsbest on youtube did a Cinebench and got like 35 frames of thereabouts. You've got a hefty increase over his Retina. He got something like 6.2 on CPU also?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWbtYo3C-wM&feature=plcp
 
That's interesting. Just booted up into windows and i get a OpenGL score of 45.56fps and CPU test of 6.53.

In OS X i get a OpenGL score of 36-37fps and CPU of around the sound.

That's with a uMBP 2.6Ghz, 16GB RAM and the 1GB 650m but lower clocked due to being the standard MBP.
 
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