Baldur's Gate 3 on macOS Sonoma Game Mode: Mac Studio M2 Max Performance Benchmarks

Boulders gate patch 3 finally brings the full release of the game to Mac and Mac OS anoma just came out with a new feature called game mode how well does the game Run on the base model Max studio with the M2 Max chip and can we reach 120 FPS for a smooth gaming experience let's find out first the test setup I'll be using the base model Max studio M2 Max chip with 12 CPU cores 30 GPU cores 32 gigs of memory and 512 gigs of storage the Mac OS version is the latest Sonoma 14.0 and I've got the machine connected to an LGC 148 in OLED TV as my monitor this means we can rent up to 120 HZ over the HDMI 2.1 connection here are the settings I'll vary for this test the biggest Factor should be resolution so I'll be looking at the common resolutions of 1080P 1440p and 2160p also known as 4K UHD I'll also tried each of the four presets for visual quality in balers Gate 3 which are low medium high and Ultra for each of these presets I'll also turn a AMD FSR to off Ultra Quality quality balanced and performance and finally I'll turn game mode on or off and see what difference it makes if any now to have the same workload in the game for all tests I'll just use the starting area of the game which seems to have some visual effects in the air let's see some numbers starting with 1080p with FSR off we can see FPS ranges from 73 on low settings to 51 on Ultra it's playable at this frame rate and if you don't have more than a 60 HZ 1080p to display this might be sufficient however we can turn on FSR to get much better results we can see that FSR and Ultra bumps up frame rates by 18 to 26 FPS and faster FSR settings increase by 10 to 12 with each step on low a balanced FSR setting is sufficient to max out at over 120 FPS while medium settings require performance FSR the difference between high and ultra settings is just 1 to 2 frames per second and this is something we'll see throughout this test at all resolutions at 1080p Boulders Gate 3 is very playable and turning on FSR can help boost frame rates Beyond 60 HZ at all quality presets moving on to 1440p with FSR off we can see that the FPS ranges from 49 on the low preset to 35 on Ultra already this resolution is starting to get into frame rates that are a bit low to be considered a smooth experience enabling FSR however gives a much needed boost none of the FSR and visual preset combinations are able to reach 120 FPS but surpassing 60 is possible with balanced FSR on the ultra preset these results on Ultra are about 20 FPS lower than at 1080p resolution while the low preset is about 30 FPS lower than at 1080p in summary playing at 1440p can definitely benefit from enabling FSR to at least the quality setting if not faster finally at 4K UHD with FSR off frame rates are in what I would consider not really playable territory ranging from 25 on low preset to just 18 on Ultra turning on FSR helps quite a bit as reaching 60 FPS is possible with performance FSR on the low preset and even on Ultra it is still fairly playable in the mid-40s clearly we can see the M2 Max Max studio struggles to play balers Gate 3 at 4K resolution if you plan to do this using a fast setting for FSR is a must in my opinion so what about game mode while all of the numbers we just covered were with game mode turned on I also turned off game mode and ran the same tests again the results were basically exactly the same with a few measurements that differed by one FPS here and there but that is likely just natural variation or possibly rounding errors in the testing in other words game mode really has no effect whatsoever which isn't surprising that's because game mode prioritizes the game's usage of the CPU and GPU lowering usage for background tasks it also doubles the Bluetooth sampling rate for input devices like mice and audio but that shouldn't be reflected in fps scores since I wasn't running anything else during my tests game mode naturally had no significant effect so that's how Boulders Gate 3 runs on a Bas M2 Max Mac Studio hope you found this video helpful if you did I'd appreciate it if you gave it a thumbs up thanks for watching and have a great day

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Id: PN38CVEL9XU

Length: 4min 4sec (244 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 07 2023