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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As always, lots of experts in the comments completly missing the actual reason. The actual reason is that some cpus has dedicated parts for doing certain things. Imagine a cpu as a group of friends who solves math problems. Some of them are good at additions while some of them are good at multiplications. If you get into a competition and questions are mostly multiplications, you want more people who are good at multiplication.
This is the gist of the idea. CPU’s who are good at certain tasks usually good at it because they have special parts dedicated to solving math that will be used for those tasks and they have more of them.
Clock speeds and single/multi thread performance is important obviously but those are areas that don’t see much change or innovation for the last decade. We basically hit a wall. So those are not the reason for performance improvements. Modern improvements are usually about cache size and speed and dedicated cores for solving some problems.
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