Has been since a few weeks Apple’s wwdc 2025 eventAnd where Apple Later this year announced a new game app included in the new McOS Taho, there was not a lot of news on the upcoming titles that Mac Gamers are ready to play.
However, during the announcement related to an important game WWDC It must have gone a bit under the radar. The announcement was made from UL Solutions, with the launch of a new Mac version of its 3DMark benchmarking app.
This is an important development for Mac Gamers, as the 3DMark gaming is one of the most popular devices used to test the PC’s graphics performance – and its arrival on Mac shows the fact that Mac is eventually being taken seriously as a gaming platform. Keeping this in mind, I want to take some time to discuss how you can really go about benchmarking Best MacBook and Mac,
And, like A-list games with Corteen Crem: Shadow And Cyberpank 2077 Now available for Mac, many of us are thinking how well this game will do on our MAC. As the name suggests, 3DMark especially focuses on test performance with games and 3D graphics, but other options are available that you can use to be benchmark your Mac (as well as compare your MAC performance with Windows PC).
Diy benchmarking
Some games (including above) AC: Shadow And Cyberpank)) Your own benchmarking tools are already built, which allow you to test your MAC performance and look at the frame-paste (FPS) score that can achieve it when running the game.
These devices can be easy as they allow you to experiment with various graphics settings within the game to create the best balance between graphics quality and performance for your special Mac models. But, of course, these devices only work within individual games, so they do not give you much indication of how your Mac will work with other games, or how it compares with other Mac or PCs – Plus, you will really have to buy the game to run the benchmark in most cases.
PC gamers that use steam, perhaps know that the steam app contains an option to show in-game. Unfortunately, the MAC version of the steam … may be slightly irregular, and its FPS counter went to AWOL for some time around 2023. However, another reception of gaming news during the WWDC announced another reception bit valve that it is currently testing a new version of the steam, especially updated to the latest MACS with Apple Silicon processor, so it would work more reliably in the future.
Steam on one side, Apple actually offers its option for testing gaming performance. It is called metal hud (head-up display), as it is part of metal software that uses to display 3D graphics on Apple Mac and other Apple devices. Metal HUD was originally designed for developers, who need to test their games or apps in McOS, but one can use it if they do not object to damp their Mac in the terminal app.
Terminal is found in applications/utilities, and you can double-click on it to launch it to launch it, such as another Mac app. When the terminal window appears on the screen, you can activate the metal hud by typing the following command:
/BIN/Locnchctl SETENV MTL_HUD_ENABLED 1
You will not see anything immediately, but next time you launch a game with 3D graphics on your Mac, metal HUDI will automatically appear. Metal HUD displays quite technical information for developers, but your screen resolution and refresh rate is correct at the top, followed by the current average FPS score. This allows you to accommodate resolution and other graphics settings within any game so that you can see how they affect the performance.
And, when you are finished with metal hud, you can simply close it by typing another command in the terminal window:
/BIN/Locnchctl Setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 0
Test with Geekbench 6
The popular Geekbench test suit has been available on Mac for many years, and it also runs on Windows PC, Linux and Android, so it is a good option to compare your MAC performance with a wide variety of PCs and other equipment. There is also a huge database of test results on Geekbench.com that you can also find.
Geekbench includes two main sets of tools, with a CPU benchmark that tests the performance of your computer’s main processor, and is a GPU benchmark for graphics performance. However, GPU tests focus on 2D graphics tasks, such as applying filters for photo-editing work, so it is not necessarily the best indicator of 3D performance for gaming. Nevertheless, Geekbench is still a useful tool to receive a general observation of your MAC performance, and there is a free version that you can download from Geekbench.com, as well as a Pro version, priced at $ 99.00 for those who need to test the computer regularly (such as your dinner proceedings of Techradar).
3dmark for Mac
Mac Gamers will probably start jumping up and down at this point, telling me that 3DMark has been available at Mac App Store for many years. This is true – but if you look closely on the Mac App Store, you will find the small print that suggests that this version of the 3DMark was “designed for iPad, and was not verified for Mac”. It is also very old, so it does not include testing for the latest graphics techniques such as re-compress.
However, the new version of the 3DMark for MACS that we see here is currently available only on steam, and is especially written to run on the latest Mac model with Apple Silicon processor. A demo version of 3DMark is available on the steam, which lets you run the main performance test free. The full version costs £ 29.50/$ 34.99 and include additional features, such as the ability to accommodate screen resolution used in various tests. And, when you buy 3dmark on steam, a single purchase allows you to download the Mac or PC version as required, so you do not need to pay twice for separate Mac and PC versions.
Unlike Geekbench, 3DMark is particularly focused on benchmark tests that assess your computer performance with 3D graphics in sports. The new Mac version does not include the full range of tests available in the PC version, but the four tests currently involved should give you a good observation of your Mac’s gaming performance. The scores in those tests are also comparable to those in the PC version of the 3DMark, making it easier to compare MAC and PC performance.
Currently four main tests are available for Macos, although two of them are very similar. Steel nomad 3D is a common-purpose test of graphics performance. It is designed to walk on more powerful Mac and PC than smartphones and tablets – so 3D graphics views that complete it 4K Resolution. There is also a test called steel nomad light, which runs on 2560×1440 resolution, and is designed for less powerful computers such as MacBook Air.
There is a similar test called wildlife extreme, which runs on 4K, but is designed for a wide range of mobile devices, so it can be a good option to compare high end iPad Pro with Macbook Pro laptop or PC gaming laptop. However, neither steel nomad nor wildlife extreme testing use re-trading graphics technology that is now used in many modern sports, such as Corteen Crem: ShadowSo there is another test called solar bay, especially designed to test your MAC performance when using the ray-enemies within the game.
Ray-trading is a technique that creates impressive and realistic lighting effects within sports, but it is very demanding and requires a very powerful Mac or PC. In fact, Apple launched the Rasting on MACS with the introduction of the M3 processor only 18 months ago -and, of course, with the current M4 -Solar Bay has been designed for the latest MACS and high -end iPad models with a lot of M4 or M4 processors.
The good news is that most of these benchmarking tools are free to use – or provide at least a useful working demo free – so it will not spend you to download and try them.
