michelb76

Amazing what a bit of competition can do.

That's a very modest speed bump, it doesn't use the GPU I guess?

These graphs also show why Apple won't be coming out with a 4090 competitor anytime soon.

xbit said:

The two games I've played that were fully optimised for Apple Silicon - Disco Elysium and Total War: Warhammer III - played beautifully. It's definitely not the hardware that's holding Mac gaming back.

Both games should not stress a system that much, so it's not saying a lot about hardware. Apple choose Metal and the windows/gaming industry choose Vulkan. A big issue is software/library support, and an hardware/gpu upgrade path which is non-existent for the foreseeable future. Even if all that would be in place perfectly, it's going to be a chicken-egg problem, because games will need to be bought. So either Apple heavily subsidises makers, much like Microsoft and Sony do for AAA titles, or it's not going to happen.

It's starting to become more of a viable gaming platform in terms of some of the hardware. Now they need to work on the software part, like a Vulkan layer or anything else that makes porting a game way easier. Or maybe they hope Epic will improve Unreal Engine for the Mac. Else we're stuck with the iOS games. So this will probably take another decade.
If they cite Resident Evil then I dunno, that was a not the best port I've seen on the mac.

WoW performance is great, but it's not a very taxing game, and Apple wrote most of the Metal code. They can't do that for every game.