Have tried on iMac and MacBook Pro and things are not looking so good. Lighting flickers in and out, performance is exceedingly bad. Often the editor view crashes completely.
Unity support have pointed me here, as this is still a beta and they don’t yet have a list of supported cards.
So would be nice to make a list so others can know what to expect before making the plunge.
Please list your operating system and card, and the results.
OSX 10.9.5 ATI Radeon HD 4670 (iMac)
Really bad performance, editor crashes a LOT.
OSX 10.9.5 Intel Iris 5100 (late 2013 MBP)
Sluggish, performance, lighting in editor doesn’t work.
Well, even stable releases have some bugs, so dont expect beta to run without troubles, especially with all the changes that are made. Of course, part of that lag i suspect is coming from osx + opengl, there is pretty big chance that on windows + directx all would run smooth, because i saw many posts on the internet, that unity for osx has more troubles.
There’s a lot of bugs with enlighten at the moment, especially with automatic baking, so you need to let that catch up if you move an object and so forth. If you have bugs, report them. Any DX9 class GPU is expected to work just fine (including mobiles).
As updates are weekly outside of the holiday season, you reporting a bug with repro project (add the repro regardless of how simple it is - it will get seen and used - ) will usually get fixed.
If you don’t report it, it may go unfixed for a long time, and that’s frustrating for you, so please do make reports for both your issues.
hippocoder I think your advice for bug fixing is very valid.
Would like to make this topic about general performance of Unity5 on different graphics cards, the experience can vary from card to card.
For example, the Radeon HD 4670 is a DX9 supported card and it runs Unity5 very badly under OSX, this accounts for 23 million iMacs so it’s not a rare case.
Unity5 performing badly on new MacBooks may well be more of an issue for OSX developers.
I am running Unity 5.2.2 fine on a Macbook Pro with a GeForce 650M.
My girlfriend cannot run the editor as it crashes every time you try to add something with a mesh renderer. Her Macbook Pro has Intel graphics.