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 marketing bullshit. Compute power is compute power. It mainly comes down to software optimization with said hardware.
Games tend to run like shit on recent Appple silicon due to the lack of Apple intergration for commonly used software frameworks.
Games also tend to prefer high clock speeds on single cores/threads currently. Multi-tasking, video editing and encoding tend go use more multi core/thread processing.
If talking video editing specifically, in industry they use servers with server grade hardware mainly ran on Linux platforms.
Anything marketed as “gaming” is just marketing buzz words to catch un-informed people, and charge them more.
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