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July 27th, 2017 by rob-ART morgan, mad scientist

Is the new iMac 5K the best macOS platform for running of X-Plane 11? Or will a Mac Pro with more cores and high-end GPU do better?

GRAPH LEGEND
2017 iMac 5K 1080Ti - '2017' iMac 5K with 4.2GHz Quad-Core i7 (7700K Kaby Lake) connected via Thunderbolt 3 to Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB VRAM)
2017 iMac 5K Pro580 - '2017' iMac 5K with 4.2GHz Quad-Core i7 (7700K Kaby Lake) with AMD Radeon Pro 580 GPU (8GB VRAM)
2015 iMac 5K M395X - 'late 2015' iMac 5K with 4GHz Quad-Core i7 (6700K Skylake), with Radeon R9 M395X GPU (4GB VRAM)
2013 Mac Pro D700 - 'late 2013' Mac Pro 3GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5-1680 with Dual FirePro D700s GPUs (6GB VRAM each)
2013 Mac Pro 1080Ti - 'late 2013' Mac Pro 3GHz 8-Core Intel Xeon E5-1680 with connected via Thunderbolt 3 to Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB VRAM)
2010 Mac Pro RX580 - 'mid 2010' Mac Pro tower with 3.33GHz 12-core X5680 Xeon with AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB VRAM) and running High Sierra beta 3
2010 Mac Pro 1080Ti - 'mid 2010' Mac Pro tower with 3.33GHz 12-core X5680 Xeon with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB VRAM)

NOTES:
a) All Macs were running macOS Sierra 10.12.5 except the Mac Pro tower with RX 580 which was running macOS High Sierra beta which supports the RX 580 without driver patches; all boot drives were PCIe based flash storage.
b) The iMacs and 2013 Mac Pro had 64G of RAM, the 2010 Mac Pro had 96G of RAM.

X-Plane 11 at 1280x720 - Using Terminal commands, we 'relived' a 2 minute flight of the SR-71 taking off low over pine trees and making a slow turn though broken clouds before doing a barrel roll. Settings were high quality with anti-aliasing (fps_test=3) using CIRCLE view.
(HIGHER frames per second = FASTER)

X-Plane 11 at 2560x1440
(HIGHER frames per second = FASTER)

X-Plane 11 at 3200x1800
(HIGHER frames per second = FASTER)

X-Plane 11 at 5120x2880
(HIGHER frames per second = FASTER)

WHAT DID WE LEARN?
If you are running X-Plane at low resolution (1280x720), the 2017 iMac 5K will give you the best performance in FPS.

If you are running at or near 2560x1440, the 2017 iMac 5K will give you the best performance in FPS.

One reader indicated either 3K was a favorite resolution among X-Plane 'pilots' so we included 3200x1800 since the iMac 5K 'likes' that. The Mac Pros were able to run at 3840x2160 when connected to the Dell UP2715K 5K display or LG UltraFine 5K display.

However, if you are running at very high resolutions (5120x2880), the 2017 iMac 5K will only keep up with the Mac Pros if you add an eGPU with a high-end GPU like the NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti.

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Action
Keyboard
Controller
Move
WASDLeft Stick
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SpaceB (right button)
DashLeft Shift
Right Trigger
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This game was developed in 48 hours during Global Game Jam 2020 for the theme 'repair'. You can find the original version here.

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  • Jannik Boysen
  • Jonna Greve
  • Sebastian Granzow
  • Luisa Höhne
  • Lowis Schwahn
  • Henrik Tallen
  • Jonas Voigt

Special thanks to Lukas Mayer, Sascha Reinhold, Jonas Mumm, Tobias Pelzl and Celina Ihler!

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
AuthorsJannik Boysen, Henrik 'Desaru' Tallen, Luisa Höhne, Nekros Arts, SchwahnDev, ZombieFerret
GenreAction
Made withUnity, Blender, Bfxr, Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter & designer, Clip Studio Paint
TagsCo-op, Flight, Global Game Jam, Local Co-Op
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Xbox controller, Playstation controller
MultiplayerLocal multiplayer
Player count2
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