CS:GO on a MacBook + GTX 1050 Ti (Medium, Optimus, Thunderbolt 1)
Happy Friday everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful day and here's another benchmark I did on my MacBook Air + GTX 1050 Ti setup on the built-in display of the laptop. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechBump In order to do this, you'll need something called an Akitio Thunder2 PCI-E Expansion Box. It is an external Thunderbolt 2 enclosure that has a PCI-E slot for any sort of graphics card. What you do is power the enclosure with a power supply adapter that can handle at least 120W (12V/10A preferably), install Windows on mac through bootcamp assistant, connect the devices through Thunderbolt then boot up Windows, install your nvidia graphics drivers, and voila you have turned your mac into a gaming machine. I go into it more clearly and more thoroughly in the video below, please check it out. Want to learn how I did it? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/bp93NhgDQi0 The only difference with this and the 1080p benchmark I did on this channel is that this is being done on the internal display, not an external monitor. Using an external monitor improves FPS since using the internal display requires Nvidia Optimus. That technology that allows the graphics card to backfeed through Thunderbolt back into the display is a bit taxing on the FPS. That's why even if this is only 1440x900, the FPS is lower than 1920x1080. Counter Strike Global Offensive, aka CSGO, is one of those games that is very well optimized for low end systems and can run very capable with just integrated graphics, such as Intel HD Graphics or Radeon R5 graphics. With a little bit of tweaks of the config file and steam launch options, 60fps is easily achievable. In the case of my MacBook, it has an EVGA GTX 1050 Ti connected to it through Thunderbolt 2 (technically Thunderbolt 1). This allows me to game at higher settings than normal since I'm not using integrated graphics whatsoever, its all the desktop graphics card doing the work. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I know there a lot of people who are able to achieve even higher FPS with weaker setups, but just realize that the settings I used are Medium to High, 1920x1080 (1080p) resolution, and that this is without a single steam launch option like "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES" or "-sm4". I can still manage between 100-160 FPS without the need to degrade the visuals in any way or require performance or an fps boost through inconvenient methods. So please keep that in mind. If anyone were to tell me that they can get higher FPS, just know I can hit 200-300 FPS and up with tweaks and reducing settings. I feel as if I shouldn't have to do so since this does well on its own already. You'll also notice there isn't any real bottlenecks in the video. CPU and GPU perform without really maxing out which is a good thing. You know that Valve developed the Source 2 Engine in such a way that anyone can run games that are made with it. I'll upload a video in the future covering how this game runs on the internal screen because this was accomplishing by utilizing an external monitor. Why use one? The Thunderbolt eGPU setup actually eats of FPS if it has to backfeed whatever the graphics card processes. By using an external monitor to output the video, it doesn't need to backfeed. No backfeeding = higher fps. Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video to help me show the world that macs are capable gaming machines! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget that I have various other benchmarks which include: - Overwatch - Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) - Dead by Daylight - Unigine Valley - Unigine Superposition - Nier Automata - Friday the 13th: The Game Coming soon: - DOOM - Battlefield 1 - Dirt Rally, Forza Horizon 3, or Project CARS - Street Fighter V (SFV) or Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator - Rocket League - Minecraft ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eGPU Setup Specs: MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2014 Operating System: Windows 10 Processor: i7-4650U @1.7 Ghz, 2.3 Ghz Turbo (2 Cores, 4 Threads) Memory: 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 1050 TI SC Gaming 4GB Enclosure: Akitio Thunder2 PCI-E Expansion Box Thunderbolt 1 (10GB/s) eGPU Settings: Intel HD Graphics 5000: Enabled Benchmarking Program: MSI Afterburner & Rivatuner Statistics Recording Program: Nvidia Shadowplay 2.11.4.0 (Driver v.382.05) Power Management Mode: Optimal Power Link State Power Management: Off (for both On Battery & Plugged In)
Happy Friday everyone! Hope you're having a wonderful day and here's another benchmark I did on my MacBook Air + GTX 1050 Ti setup on the built-in display of the laptop. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechBump In order to do this, you'll need something called an Akitio Thunder2 PCI-E Expansion Box. It is an external Thunderbolt 2 enclosure that has a PCI-E slot for any sort of graphics card. What you do is power the enclosure with a power supply adapter that can handle at least 120W (12V/10A preferably), install Windows on mac through bootcamp assistant, connect the devices through Thunderbolt then boot up Windows, install your nvidia graphics drivers, and voila you have turned your mac into a gaming machine. I go into it more clearly and more thoroughly in the video below, please check it out. Want to learn how I did it? Watch it here: https://youtu.be/bp93NhgDQi0 The only difference with this and the 1080p benchmark I did on this channel is that this is being done on the internal display, not an external monitor. Using an external monitor improves FPS since using the internal display requires Nvidia Optimus. That technology that allows the graphics card to backfeed through Thunderbolt back into the display is a bit taxing on the FPS. That's why even if this is only 1440x900, the FPS is lower than 1920x1080. Counter Strike Global Offensive, aka CSGO, is one of those games that is very well optimized for low end systems and can run very capable with just integrated graphics, such as Intel HD Graphics or Radeon R5 graphics. With a little bit of tweaks of the config file and steam launch options, 60fps is easily achievable. In the case of my MacBook, it has an EVGA GTX 1050 Ti connected to it through Thunderbolt 2 (technically Thunderbolt 1). This allows me to game at higher settings than normal since I'm not using integrated graphics whatsoever, its all the desktop graphics card doing the work. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I know there a lot of people who are able to achieve even higher FPS with weaker setups, but just realize that the settings I used are Medium to High, 1920x1080 (1080p) resolution, and that this is without a single steam launch option like "-USEALLAVAILABLECORES" or "-sm4". I can still manage between 100-160 FPS without the need to degrade the visuals in any way or require performance or an fps boost through inconvenient methods. So please keep that in mind. If anyone were to tell me that they can get higher FPS, just know I can hit 200-300 FPS and up with tweaks and reducing settings. I feel as if I shouldn't have to do so since this does well on its own already. You'll also notice there isn't any real bottlenecks in the video. CPU and GPU perform without really maxing out which is a good thing. You know that Valve developed the Source 2 Engine in such a way that anyone can run games that are made with it. I'll upload a video in the future covering how this game runs on the internal screen because this was accomplishing by utilizing an external monitor. Why use one? The Thunderbolt eGPU setup actually eats of FPS if it has to backfeed whatever the graphics card processes. By using an external monitor to output the video, it doesn't need to backfeed. No backfeeding = higher fps. Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video to help me show the world that macs are capable gaming machines! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget that I have various other benchmarks which include: - Overwatch - Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) - PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) - Dead by Daylight - Unigine Valley - Unigine Superposition - Nier Automata - Friday the 13th: The Game Coming soon: - DOOM - Battlefield 1 - Dirt Rally, Forza Horizon 3, or Project CARS - Street Fighter V (SFV) or Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator - Rocket League - Minecraft ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- eGPU Setup Specs: MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2014 Operating System: Windows 10 Processor: i7-4650U @1.7 Ghz, 2.3 Ghz Turbo (2 Cores, 4 Threads) Memory: 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM Graphics Card: EVGA GTX 1050 TI SC Gaming 4GB Enclosure: Akitio Thunder2 PCI-E Expansion Box Thunderbolt 1 (10GB/s) eGPU Settings: Intel HD Graphics 5000: Enabled Benchmarking Program: MSI Afterburner & Rivatuner Statistics Recording Program: Nvidia Shadowplay 2.11.4.0 (Driver v.382.05) Power Management Mode: Optimal Power Link State Power Management: Off (for both On Battery & Plugged In)