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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To add on to what the other comments are saying about parallel processes vs single thread, imagine it like having a bunch of lesser skilled/experienced engineers vs a single highly experienced engineer.
If you have a bunch of pretty easy tasks, the former might be able to bang them out quickly while the latter guy gets swamped because even as good as he is, he’s just one person. On the other hand, if you have a single difficult task, having a bunch of guys isn’t necessarily any faster than one and the single experienced guy will be able to complete it faster than a bunch of guys who don’t really know what they’re doing.
“Ideally” you would have a bunch of highly experienced engineers, but that would be very expensive to do and is overkill for most applications so it’s not really ideal in practice outside of like high performance applications where you might actually need that
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