Which Mac Is Good For Gaming?

For last few years, playing games on a Mac was almost impossible; Windows users used to have fun about playing games on a Mac. So it was not a perfect PC for game lovers, especially if they used to think beyond Football Manager. But, now things are changing. Many big games are coming on Mac. It now became easier to find top game titles on Mac, and to some extent, it has decreased the sales of PC. Now you can easily play games like Tomb Rider, Starcraft 2, Batman Arkham City, World of Warcraft and many others on your Macs.

Though still most of the AAA games such as Skyrim, Dragon Age: Inquisition, etc. are available for Windows, and they will always be available for Windows first but by installing a Boot Camp on your Mac you can get the advantage of both, Mac games and can run the Windows games as well.

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However, if you are a Mac lover because of its sleek design, smooth performance and other high-end features and now want to have excellent gaming experience, then you must be thinking what Mac is good for gaming? Well, we are going to discuss that in detail.

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System requirement for playing games on Macs

To play the latest and heavy video games, first you have to know the name of the best Mac for gaming, and it depends on few things such as the processor performance and graphics. To get best Mac laptop gaming experience, the first requirement is powerful graphics. Other system requirements are fast internal storage and display that is able to keep up with everything that is going on the screen/game. So you need to be very careful while choosing the Mac as the modern games now put a heavy load on the GPU. Here is a list of the current GPUs that are found in Macs:

• Intel HD Graphics 5000
• NVIDIA GeForce GT750M, GT755M and GTX 775M
• Dual AMD FirePro D300 & D500
• AMD Radeon R9 M290X
• Intel Iris Graphics
• Intel Iris Pro Graphics

In Macs, there are two types of GPUs available, Integrated and Discrete. Usually, Discrete GPU is faster as they work independently as a second processor and do not get power from the main CPU. But Integrated GPU (Graphics processing unit) is part of a SoC (System on a chip) and draws power from the main CPU.

In the current Macs, three types of integrated GPU are there, Iris, Iris Pro, and HD5000; all of them are supplied by Intel. All the others are GPU discrete, so they are more powerful. Therefore, if you want to play heavy games on Mac and are thinking what Mac is good for gaming, then consider buying a Mac that is equipped with Intel Iris Pro or better.

Names of Macs those are good for gaming

Keeping all the factors in mind, here is a list of Macs, which can be considered for playing games along with continuing other activities:

• 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
• 27-inch iMac
• 27-inch iMac with Retina display
• 21.5-inch iMac (with NVIDIA GeForce GT760M or Intel Iris Pro)
• Mac Pro

You should avoid some Macs for playing high-end games, and the names are:

• Mac Mini
• 13-inch MacBook Pro
• 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
• MacBook Air
• 1.4GHz iMac

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The Macs that we have listed for offering best Mac laptop gaming experience, are excellent in terms of everything. However, if you are looking for a Mac that can give you the best gaming display, then consider buying the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. This is without doubt, an amazing Mac with a very high resolution, thus offers excellent photographs. You can choose this iMac with any of the three different displays: 27-inch Retina 5K display, 27-inch H-IPS display or 21.5-inch display. If budget is not the matter of concern for you, then we will suggest going for this one.

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