iMac Core Duo: designed for gamers?

Powered by the ATI X1600 and its Intel Core Duo processor, we would expect the iMacIntel to be faster for games than the iMacG5, or even some PMG5. Today, one can see the impact of the new hardware thanks to the la version Universal Binary version of Unreal tournament 2004. Results are quite clear: the iMacIntel is up to 40% faster than the iMac G5 2.1 GHz for this game!

We will have a more define idea when more games will be ported to universal binaries, but for sure it is encouraging for both game developers and mac users. One could also compare the results obtained with similar hardware between a MacIntel and a PC, in order to evaluate if OpenGL is optimized or not on OSX and if ATI drivers for OSX are really getting the best out the GPU ...