A tale of two graphics cards

[JFutral]

How are people on Macs measuring (if you are) FPS? 

 

I have a 2013 Macbook Pro that I recently purchased an eGPU set up that included an Nvidia 1050ti card. It ran PoE pretty flawlessly. The problem was that Nvidia seems to not be supported by macOS directly and wouldn't work in clamshell mode or sleep mode. I was running macOS Sierra at that point and I ran PoE in High graphics mode.

 

So I bought an AMD RX560 aero and upgraded to High Sierra since it provided drivers for AMD cards builtin. I thought that would have been a comparable card, if not a little less.

 

However, I have to back off on the graphics settings in PoE to get anywhere near the same performance.

 

One thing I did notice is that when running in Fastspeed mode the AMD is a bit faster but also choppier and character movement more erratic. The Nvidia was smoother, no crazy Three Stooges mode in the movement, but maybe a tad slower.

 

So I am trying to figure out a way to compare game performance with both cards. I got this set up specifically for PoE. Everything else I do was fine with the builtin graphics.

 

A few other details:

2013 Macbook Pro

8 gigs ram

SSD

ViewSonic VX 2475 external monitor

Akitio TB2 external enclosure

connected by DP rather than HDMI or DVI

 

I run the game in 1920x1080 resolution, both in the game and computer settings.

I checked the box for "low resolution mode" as suggested by one website even though I have no idea what that means.

 

Joe

Edited September 2, 2018 by JFutral