3DMark’s new benchmark: Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad Light.

casperes1996 said:
Being big on a platform like YouTube is less about your technical knowledge and accuracy and more about your presentation style and camera-personality. The very biggest channels are often less knowledgable and accurate than the ones a few ticks smaller
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True but even knowing that I wasn’t really impressed. 🙃

Edit: Okay to flesh that out beyond me just being jealous and petty, he’s basically a standard TechTube clone in that regard. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t have anything that really differentiates him.

I mean for a mistake like the one in the video, in fairness, not the worst mistake in the world though usually you’d get a visual edit over it (we’ve all seen that where the YouTuber puts the right number with an asterisk in big bold font every time they said the wrong thing or put up a chart with it). And no doubt having to churn out video after after video such a mistake would eventually happen (edit of an edit: holy shit he’s posted 6 videos in the last 2 days alone). Truthfully the grind of maintaining such a channel must be pretty intense, especially since it’s not like YouTube pays a ton unless you’re huge not just big.

I can’t remember what about the previous video I’d seen that annoyed me, but yeah it was probably technical too. I think it was a video posted on the other site.
 
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Jimmyjames said:
It appears that the full version of Steel Nomad will be released for macOS soon. Here is a pre-release score from this video. Around RTX 3070 level.

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Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad light is the same test at different resolutions.

It looks like 3dmark is making a macOS launcher for the existing tests. It doesn't seem like they are going to bring over the existing feature tests. Someone said they were working on a new mobile RT test, though they would probably be better served just bringing Port Royal or Speedway over.
 
diamond.g said:
Steel Nomad and Steel Nomad light is the same test at different resolutions.

It looks like 3dmark is making a macOS launcher for the existing tests. It doesn't seem like they are going to bring over the existing feature tests. Someone said they were working on a new mobile RT test, though they would probably be better served just bringing Port Royal or Speedway over.
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It’s just steel nomad. The other tests are considered old/out of date I believe.
 
Jimmyjames said:
It’s just steel nomad. The other tests are considered old/out of date I believe.
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Speedway "just" came out as the replacement for Port Royal. The only thing it is missing is a path traced feature test. With DXR 1.2 being announced/released I suppose they are going to make a new RT test to take advantage of it. I presume Metal already has the same feature set?
 
diamond.g said:
Speedway "just" came out as the replacement for Port Royal. The only thing it is missing is a path traced feature test. With DXR 1.2 being announced/released I suppose they are going to make a new RT test to take advantage of it. I presume Metal already has the same feature set?
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By other tests, I meant Time Spy etc. Speedway is a DirectX specific benchmark afaik.
 
Jimmyjames said:
I’m seeing some people (not here) being surprised by the delta between the M4 Max and the 5090. I think it’s to be expected given the delta in compute and power between the two.
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I see what you mean:

forums.macrumors.com

Apple is falling behind, M4 Max nowhere close to RTX 5090.

When the M1 Max launched, Apple said that it rivaled the flagship NVIDIA GPU at the time, the RTX 3080. However, in 2025, when comparing the M4 Max MacBook Pro to PC laptops equipped with the flagship NVIDIA GPU, the RTX 5090, which costs the same as a M4 Max MacBook Pro, the MacBook Pro gets...
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:)
 
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