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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I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this, but software is also very important to this question, in particular the games themself. The game developer writes source code that gets translated to cpu instructions by a so called compiler (another software). The problem is, that you need to do this for every processor with different instruction sets if you want to support that processor, and you need to optimize differently and so on. AMD and Intel use the same instruction set called x86_64, the steam deck also uses that btw, that’s why it works so well. Apple cpus use a different instruction set, and game devs don’t develop for Apple cpus.
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