Hey everyone! Does anyone happen to have any benchmarks mainly for the new iMac? I am mainly looking for specifically the GPU in the 5700 XT with 16 GB VRAM. Is this new video card even supported? I don’t see It on the Blizzard Support video card list. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Can’t help you on the benchmark, but I can confirm that the 5700 XT is supported by Apple as an eGPU. I’m running a Sapphire RX 5700 XT 8GB in a Razer Core x Chroma from a 2019 MBP. All visuals settings are maxed out and it runs great (I use an external monitor hooked up to the Chroma). The SL beta is a bit choppy in spots with the same settings, but nothing that I’m concerned about.
It also works fine as an internal GPU on both a Mac Pro 7,1 and a 5,1 running Catalina. (At least the Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT 8GB does)
I got mine a couple of days ago. Once WoW installed I put it to the test by maxing out all graphic settings to 10 and kept resolution to the default value of 2560x1440.
I ran a few quests even queued up for the last boss of Ny’alotha LFR; no matter what the game stayed very consistently at 100 FPS – which I guess is a cap set by default. I even turned on antialiasing and saw no FPS reduction whatsoever.
Before logging out I teleported back to Boralus Harbor, where I saw my FPS dip down to 80-90. No biggie, the place was packed.
The fan was running the whole time, but noise level was definitely bearable.
All in all I am very happy with that new Mac, it should handle anything Shadowlands throws at it.
Drop the FPS cap down to 60 unless you have a display that can do more. Otherwise you’re just wasting electricity in the form of heat for no net gain. By limiting the cap to 60 you actually free up resources and can crank settings higher than with an unusable cap.
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i7 6700k 32gb ram and 5700 XT on Catalina 10.15.7 hackintosh. 81500 Metal Geekbench score, WoW runs insanely well maxed out on setting 10. Maintain around 120+ in town. 144 (capped) while questing. and 80-130ish raiding (setting 6-7)depending on whats going on. This is older CPU, so i’d assume you’d get similar or better performance.
I don’t have benchmarks, but I am using the new iMac with the 5700 XT 16GB, and it runs smooth. For transparency, I render the game in 1440p, use graphics setting 7, triple buffering, and Vsync (iMac doesn’t support above 60 Hz). I have yet to drop below 60 fps.
I’m looking to hear from anyone who has the 5700XT. Can you do me a huge favor. Can you set everything to 10 and tell me your FPS in Ardenweald? Thank you so so much!!!
I have an M1 Macbook and it sucks, it does 18-25fps tops in Ardenweald, don’t believe the hype!
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Is that on 10? Try setting it to 7 and dropping the particle effects option from High to Good.
ardenweald brings even a 6900xt to it’s knees (by knees I mean i can only run 60fps there on ultra settings at 200 render scale. but other zones i can run 120. a literal 60fps difference.
the way art designed ardenweald is pretty bad. turning compute effects off helps a ton but the zone is still quite bad because it also uses a lot of particle related fog effects still that just drag even the best of machines down, so a mediocre imac or one of the new low range M1s will definitely suffer.
I’ve got a 5700 XT and get 60 fps in Ardenweald at all setting maxed (except AA is turned off – my vision is blurry enough without it), for the most part. There are some graphic glitches with ground cover that appeared in Big Sur 11.3 (and still not solved in the Monterey betas). Right now it runs a bit better on Catalina. I plan on upgrading to a 6900 XT soon (once the prices descend back down to earth) – we’ll see how it does then, but as of now fps is not my problem. (2019 Mac Pro with 16 cores w/ Sapphire Pulse 5700 XT)
I’d kill to get a 6900XT for anywhere near the price Omegal got his. As much of a pain as it would be to move to Big Sur, it’d be nice to have support for a longer period than 10.13 is going to have, since XCode will likely stop allowing for targeting that OS in a year, maybe two if I’m super lucky.
I’m waiting also to see if Apple releases some Navi 21+ MPX cards. It’s starting to look doubtful, but I doubt the Navi 21 support was from the pure goodness of their hearts – there’s a product somewhere that needs it.
How long we keep Intel support remains to be seen. This could be the Leopard --> Snow Leopard --> Lion transition, where old hardware is gone in two cycles, all over again. But I doubt it as the cycles are obviously much shorter and an Apple Silicon Mac Pro successor isn’t in the cards yet unless they radically upscale the architecture. Possible, admittedly.