M6 Mac Mini gaming: No Man's Sky
The preset ladder and MetalFX Temporal Quality at 1080p. nyaaBench results on the 24GB M6 Mac Mini.
These tests use the 24GB M6 Mac Mini. See the overview and measurement notes for the shared setup.
No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky was another good experience on the Mini. For the main preset tests I disabled AA, which also leaves MetalFX off. I don't particularly like the resulting image, the edges are very jarring and the game felt detail heavy but with a strange shimmer due to the heavy aliasing. There's an additional High capture with MetalFX Temporal at Quality, as this smoothed out those artefacts and gave us an improvement in quality, which is the setting I'd actually choose for playing.
No Man’s Sky · Mac Mini M6, 24GB
| Settings / scene | Average FPS |
|---|---|
| Standard No AA 1080p | 89.79 |
| Enhanced No AA 1080p | 76.82 |
| High No AA 1080p | 56.71 |
| Ultra No AA 1080p | 40.17 |
| High Temporal MFX Quality 1080p | 80.75 |
One capture per setting. Hover averages for min / avg / max; min and max are one-second rates, not percentile lows. Colours: below 30 fps red, 30–59 yellow, 60–89 green, 90+ cyan.
nyaaBench capture
Gameplay capture. Exact route and game version were not recorded. Frame rate and latency are once-a-second summaries; telemetry is sampled every 250 ms. Dashed lines mark each capture's average.
High without 'AA' averages , compared with in the MetalFX Temporal Quality capture. These are separate gameplay captures in the same area rather than some identical route, but the combination of image quality and speed made High with Temporal Quality my preference. Ultra without AA averages 40.17fps, which is a sizeable cost for settings I found less appealing to use.