With the new WWDC coming out, Apple boasts about its performance using applications like video editing, encoding, etc. However, I keep hearing that despite the “power” it has, macs are not good for gaming (I know the Apple silicon processors aren’t just a CPU but my point still stands).
Why is this the case? Even with CPUs, I see that some are marketed as doing different things, like the AMD Ryzen X3D line for gaming, versus others that are better for productivity tasks. Shouldn’t a good CPU be able to do both things? What makes them different?
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For a 5 year old –
The CPU is like machine doing a job, and different machines do their jobs differently. IN this case (more than serial vs parallel) – the actual CPUs ( machine ) are made different.
In gaming – we are working with creating a 3 dimensional model – like a sculpture, that you, playing the game can see. So the tools (registers and vector specific processors) it has are for creating the sculpture.
In video editing – we are typically looking at a series of photographs, a flat image – broken into pixels or made into a digital image, and need to work on all of those pixels very quickly because there are so many of them. So the CPU is built and has tools to read the image – do something to its data, and save it – to many pixels in a very consistent and organized way.
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