Valve Says Apple Graphics Update Boosts Frame Rates by Up to 120%

Valve has announced that Apple's latest Snow Leopard Graphics Update has boosted performance dramatically for gamers with frame rate improvements of 15% to 120%.

Changes in their code alongside the graphics update have resulted in the removal of a variety of software bottlenecks.

We are seeing dramatic performance improvements on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook (Early 2009 and Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models. Depending on the game, video settings and the hardware, we have measured frame rate improvements from 15% to 120% on these systems. On older systems, we are generally already operating at the limits of the hardware, so it is not obvious that any significant performance improvements can be achieved in the future.


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