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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Macs aren’t good for gaming because games don’t get ported to Mac, because they use a different CPU architecture so devs would have to spend more time/money developing for them even though they have a low market share.
Also nowadays the isn’t much of a difference between a CPU good for production vs gaming, since gaming tech has evolved to make full use of CPU features like multi threading.
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