Apple has released Snow Leopard Graphics Update

FreeStream · 18 Aug 2010 at 01:04

Mac Pro 2009 with Apple 4870 results:

Before:

After:

In Portal now I can have 8xAA and 9 portals and min FPS is 30 (V-sync) and average is 60FPS!

YAY!

2007 MacBook Pro however barely any change with the 8600GTM!

pingwing · 18 Aug 2010 at 01:47

OooooOOOOOooooo!

Now this is exciting! Is it on the auto update?? (been on 10.6.3 for a bit as .4 was naff)

steveo · 18 Aug 2010 at 09:09

it made no difference to xbench score

randal · 18 Aug 2010 at 09:15

Finally! Hopefully this'll mean Valve will start releasing games on a Wednesday again as this dried up when Apple killed graphics performance with 10.6.3.

Looking forward to giving this a punt tonight.

Blackhawk47 · 18 Aug 2010 at 12:34

Cool stuff. Going to get it downloaded and installed this afternoon. Would be interesting to see if I can get some more FPS out of my iMac/Macbook with Steam games. :cool:

knowledge123 · 19 Aug 2010 at 21:00

No real improvement on a 5,1 9400M Unibody.