Imac: New with Ultra Mode!
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Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2010-07-28 06:45 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I have a friend with last year's 27" model (2560x1440) with an i7-860 and a 512MB HD 4850. He likes it but gaming at full resolution is a bit of a problem with such an underpowered card.
The 21.5" screen is 1920x1080 and on the new iMac it's driven either by a 256MB HD 4670 or a 512MB HD 5670, both with GDDR3 video memory.
So once again Apple attaches a mid level video card to an extreme resolution monitor. At least this time they gave it memory.
Note that the HD 5670 option is using GDDR3 and not GDDR5 video memory, so performance will be a bit lower than standard.
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Anyways, Apple now has their new Imac units out and on paper they are pretty promising.
You can get the 21.5" Imac with a RadeonHD 5670, and the 27" Imac with a RadeonHD 5750.
Granted, neither one of these will be pushing Ultra-Mode in the Imac's native display resolutions, 1920*1080 and 2560*1440 respectively. The 5670 though can do some Ultra-Mode options at lower resolutions like 1440*900, and the 5750 can do Ultra-Mode in 1680*1050.
So if you were thinking about something from Apple, but not willing to shell out for a PowerMac^^^^^^^^ MacPro, you can now have your Imac and some Ultra-Mode icing on top.