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?
In: 100
A M chip from Apple is just a glorified Arm cpu with a few extra extensions.
These extensions will optimize specific tasks like video editing.
Then you have x86/64 which is more of a workhorse of a cpu.
But because it is just a cpu and does not have those extra extensions that Apple created, it will be slower at those tasks when compared to a cpu with similar specs.
But if you add a GPU to your system you will get far superior capabilities to for example video editing.
But you will sacrifice for electricity usage.
A cpu with a GPU is going to consume way more power than an Arm cpu with extensions.
As for gaming, apple sucks in the way that most developers don’t want to develop games for them as they require too much control of the applications.
As well as you are required to use apple for transactions and they take a massive cut of it…
Latest Answers