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 *as a whole* are not as good for gaming because fewer games are ported to run on macOS. Games are built on engines which are built on accelerated graphics APIs other than Metal.
Apple has built media accelerators that work on encoding and decoding video streams. Other systems might put those onto the GPUs.
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