How many FPS does Cities: Skylines get on the iMac M3? 1080p, 1440p and 4K performance

Estimated average in normal gameplay with the game and macOS up to date. Green: 60+ · lime: 45+ · amber: 30+ · orange: 20+ · red: under 20.

Recommended settings

Moving to 1440p High puts the iMac M3 at about 43 FPS. This game has no MetalFX, so resolution is the setting that matters most.

Is the iMac M3 enough for Cities: Skylines?

Yes, comfortably: 68 FPS at 1080p High. You can move to 1440p (43 FPS) or your display’s native resolution.

Excellent · 1440p 43 FPS · 4K 22 FPS

iMac M3 or MacBook Air M4 for Cities: Skylines?

In Cities: Skylines at 1080p High, the iMac M3 gets 68 FPS and the MacBook Air M4 77 FPS: 13% more.

iMac M3 specs

Chip

Apple M3

GPU cores

8 / 10

Unified memory

8 / 16 / 24 GB

Cooling

Fan

Geekbench Metal

41,753

Tier

Entry level · 11/100

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Other Macs with the M3 chip

The Apple M3 also powers the MacBook Air M3 and the MacBook Pro M3. In Cities: Skylines, the MacBook Pro M3 gets 83 FPS at 1080p High, 22% more than the iMac M3.

MacBook Air M3MacBook Pro M3

How much memory do you need?

On Apple Silicon the GPU shares memory with the system, so the RAM you picked when buying the Mac is also your video memory. Cities: Skylines asks for 6 GB minimum.

Other games on the iMac M3

• Death Stranding Director's Cut44FPS
• Hitman World of Assassination51FPS
• Lies of P65FPS
• Metro Exodus39FPS
• Resident Evil 433FPS
• Resident Evil Village33FPS
• Frostpunk 247FPS
• GRID Legends60FPS
• No Man's Sky47FPS
• Resident Evil 247FPS

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Official Mac requirements

Minimum

OS X 10.11 · Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz · 6 GB memory · 512 MB dedicated GPU · 4 GB storage · Intel build, runs on Apple silicon through Rosetta 2

Recommended

OS X 10.11 · Intel Core i5-3470 · 8 GB memory · 2 GB dedicated GPU

Source: store.steampowered.com