Radeon Pro Vega 48

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Before I buy my new iMac, can I get a response from Blizzard that the Radeon Pro Vega 48 is supported by WOW even though it’s not included on the list of supported Mac video cards? The Vega 56 and 64 are on the list, but not the 48.

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Hey Sooz,
I have one of the new iMacs with the Radeon Pro Vega 48 and it runs WoW just fine. No issues to report.

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Hi Cassio, thanks for the response regarding the Vega 48. What other ‘parts’ did you choose? I’m considering the 27", i9 processor, 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD.

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Along with the Vega 48 for my 27" iMac, I got the i9 processor, 1TB SSD, and only 8 GB of ram. and then bought two 16 GB ram chips and installed them myself, so now I have 40 GB. It’s a lot cheaper that way. Apple charges too much for ram.

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Ah, good to know, thank you!

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Anytime :grin:

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Hey Cassio, Can you tell us how your experience has been. Are you playing at a full 5K or do you scale it down for decent FPS?

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Hey Talilicious,

So far playing WoW has been super on my new iMac.

One thing that has also made a huge difference is not playing WoW at true Retina resolution. Which I learned about thanks to Tiapriestess. I don’t know enough to properly explain it, but I use a program called EasyRes to downscale my screen from 2560 X 1440-X2 to 2560 X 1440-X1 before I open WoW. That change along with the settings I use below gives me 60fps all the time, raids, open world, BGs.

My graphics setup is as fellows.

Display

Display mode - Fullscreen

Window size - 5120 X 2880

Resolution scale - 100% (2560 X 1440)

Monitor - iMac

Anti Aliasing - MSAA 8X

Vertical Sync - Enabled

Graphics Quality

Graphics Quality - 5 (sliding scale)

Texture Resolution - High

Texture Filtering - 16X anisotropic

Projected Textures - Enabled

Environment

View Distance 10 (Sliding Scale)

Environmental Detail 10 (Sliding Scale)

Ground Clutter 10 (Sliding Scale)

Effects

Shadow Quality - Ultra High

Liquid Detail - Good

Sunshafts - Low

Particle Density - Ultra

SSAO - Ultra

Depth Effects - High

Lighting Quality - High

Outline Mode - Disabled

Advanced Settings

Tripple Buffing - Enabled

MSAA - 8X

Multisample Alpha-test - Disabled

Post - Process AA - None

Resample Quality - None

Graphics API - Metal

Physics Interactions - Player and NPC

Graphics Card - Radeon Pro Vega 48 8 GB

UI Scale -1.0

Max foreground - 60 FPS

Max Background - 60 FPS

Contrast - 50

Brightness -50

Gamma - 1.1

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I’d also recommend reading Stoneblade’s “WoW Performance Guide For Macs- Patch 8.0” The one with 386 replies. The guide itself is excellent, but focus mainly on the replies (A lot of reading, I know) The discussions are very helpful and informative.

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Oh my gosh, Cassio! Thank you so much for taking the time to share all the detail; so helpful! :smiley:

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Thank you for the response. I understood everything you mentioned and that is exactly what I wanted to know. It is time to refresh my wife’s computer and I want to get her a real Mac again. We have been using Hackintosh’s for 4 years now and have loved most of it, but my wife desires for the real experience of a normal MAC and not some of the quirkiness that comes with a Hackintosh. I guess it is off to the Apple Store this weekend.

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Hi Cassio, how much performance hit did you note when running the UI at 5k and using a 50% render scale for the game world vs 2k as you’re doing now?

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Hey Cakereview,

I just tested it out, and running 5k at 50% render with all other settings the same. My fps goes down to 40-45 out in the world by myself. Didn’t do any raid or BG testing. But my guess is it will take a bigger hit there.