Game performance nothing like what benchmarks say?

[Miyoi]

I'm not a gamer, I don't really play very many games. I wanted to play some casual Minecraft and was surprised to see that my m1 Mac mini doesn't perform anything like it does in YouTube videos or benchmarks. I can only play on the lowest settings with hitching. I've seen people play with shaders at a solid 60FPS. What's going on here? Is there some setting I'm supposed to check? Did I miss something?

 

[Chozes]

It is quite good. Best integrated GPU by far.

Hitching suggests a bottleneck somewhere. Likely VRAM/RAM.

Resolution plays a big part. Most reviews/tests were done at 1080p. QHD is quite decent too. 4K struggles somewhat but can be playable(8GB too low here). Check background processes etc.

Cant wait for the upcoming higher spec Macs.

 

[Miyoi]

It is quite good. Best integrated GPU by far.

Hitching suggests a bottleneck somewhere. Likely VRAM/RAM.

Resolution plays a big part. Most reviews/tests were done at 1080p. QHD is quite decent too. 4K struggles somewhat but can be playable(8GB too low here). Check background processes etc.

Cant wait for the upcoming higher spec Macs.

Yeah, I'm playing at 1080p. Everything websites say are playable just aren't. I don't know what I'm missing here but nothing performs like it should at 1080p. I pretty much can't play anything but the lowest spec games.

I have the 16GB ram model too.

 

[Leon1das]

Havent tried Minecraft but Bioshock Remastered 1 and 2 run at 2560x1600, all maxed with well above 60fps.

It depends on how game is optimized too - but M1 in its chip has rough equivalent to Ryzen 4800U and GTX 1650 performance (CPU and GPU wise).

For testing - I put Windows 10 Arm on Parallels on it. M1 gaming in Windows is 50-60% faster than on my Surface Pro 7 (1065G7) when we compare x86 apps - despite the fact that Win10 Arm has to emulate x86 code....

So quite, quite fast....

 

[Coheebuzz]

Try enabling v-sync if it has such a setting and see what happens, it might be the timing bug.

 

[leman]

Are you using a native Java runtime?

 

[Argon_]

Have you tried the Alt+F3 menu, to get a graph?

Also, is VSync on?

 

[Miyoi]

Alright, I solved the problem. I did a bit more research into this. From what other people say, it seems like a new Mac or a MacOS install can be a bit slow for two days? I noticed my Mac was slow at first personally and now I'm seeing much higher FPS since I tried. Clocking in at 150-200FPS on max settings on Minecraft now. So it looks like the issue had to do with probably initial system setup and such over the first two days.

 

[Argon_]

Alright, I solved the problem. I did a bit more research into this. From what other people say, it seems like a new Mac or a MacOS install can be a bit slow for two days? I noticed my Mac was slow at first personally and now I'm seeing much higher FPS since I tried. Clocking in at 150-200FPS on max settings on Minecraft now. So it looks like the issue had to do with probably initial system setup and such over the first two days.

Interesting. Your initial posted values were surprising, given that recent iGPU Intel machines easily manage 60 FPS, with the exception of the thermally troubled Air.