Robert149 Posted November 5, 2013 Report Posted November 5, 2013 I am looking to get a new imac and I am not sure if getting the i7 prosessor vers the i5 is very important . The imac I am looking at has 3.2 GHz intel core i5 prossesor With two GB video memory. So my question is would there be a big differance in xplanes performance between the two prosessors ? Thanks in advance for any help.
Ntr09 Posted November 5, 2013 Report Posted November 5, 2013 If it's the top-end i5 (4570,4570K) then it should be fine for X-Plane. Those CPUs blow my old i7 950 out of the water and it ain't to shabby for X-Plane. Go for the i7 if you do a lot of video encoding, editing, streaming or animating. Hyperthreading is the main difference. -NR 1
ktomais Posted November 5, 2013 Report Posted November 5, 2013 It's my opinion that you should go for the i7, XPlane is CPU heavy. Also I'd say stack up on RAM if you can, it will shield you for the future as well.
sqrt(-1) Posted November 5, 2013 Report Posted November 5, 2013 It's my opinion that you should go for the i7, XPlane is CPU heavy. Also I'd say stack up on RAM if you can, it will shield you for the future as well. It's CPU heavy only from the standpoint of single-thread performance. X-Plane is not as thread intensive as one may think. The i7 will only help if you intend to have a lot of AI aircraft. Read this. 1
ktomais Posted November 6, 2013 Report Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) It's CPU heavy only from the standpoint of single-thread performance. X-Plane is not as thread intensive as one may think. The i7 will only help if you intend to have a lot of AI aircraft. Read this. True but it also depends on the planes you own and fly. Despite the devs best efforts, complex planes with complex systems are complex to run. Edited November 6, 2013 by ktomais
Robert149 Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Posted November 6, 2013 Ok thanks for your feed back guys that will help me on my final decision ! Appreciate you all taking your time to help me out !
sqrt(-1) Posted November 6, 2013 Report Posted November 6, 2013 True but it also depends on the planes you own and fly. Despite the devs best efforts, complex planes with complex systems are complex to run. The links I sent you took that into account.
Robert149 Posted November 6, 2013 Author Report Posted November 6, 2013 Thanks for that ! The post by Andy was great and helped me out ! Blue skies for the links my friend
Redfisher Posted November 6, 2013 Report Posted November 6, 2013 Those new iMac's with 4G's of VRAM as an option look good to me. Add some third party RAM up to 32G's and you've got a great machine.
Ntr09 Posted November 6, 2013 Report Posted November 6, 2013 I just learned that the top-end 21.5" iMac has a GTX 750M and it's non upgradeable. Pretty much rules out using x-plane on it. -NR
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