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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This doesn’t really have much to do with single vs multi core performance and more about how Apple has designed their chip and what they’ve included on it. Apple includes encoders on their chip specifically meant for processing of video. Someone used the separate engineers analogy and it was pretty good. Imagine an entire department of engineers and all they did was get a part in and draw a blueprint of it. Then it was sent to either the large amount of lower skilled engineers or the one highly skilled engineer. That company would be very fast at looking at a part and getting it to production because they have a specific department that specializes in that task (these are the encoders). Apple includes large amounts of these highly specialized pieces in their chips because then they can wipe the floor with other chips that don’t have that specialization, but these only work when used in video production and they also take up valuable space inside the computer. Apple is not considered a good gaming platform not because they’re processors can’t perform well, but because PC gaming has evolved on Windows machines. Most games are only built to run on Windows systems and for Apple to run them they must be “translated” and that takes time (imagine Apple and Windows speak different languages).
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