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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It’s not really about the CPU power. While Apple CPUs are probably marginally better for productivity since they’ve probably been specially optimized for it, if you somehow transplanted an Apple chip into a Windows PC it would probably game fine.
Macs aren’t good for gaming because they don’t come with good GPUs (a special kind of CPU for graphics only), and game developers don’t usually bother releasing for Mac, or optimizing for Mac even if they do.
This isn’t because the CPU is bad, but because Apple and developers have no incentive to make gaming good on Mac, because no one (to a rounding error) games on Mac. And why don’t people game on Mac? Because Macs aren’t good for gaming. It’s a chicken and egg problem.
It’s nothing to do with the CPU though.
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