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M1 Pro/Max's GPU performance for gaming is quite poor.
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Because GFXbench uses a simple rendering loop that is trivial for Rosetta to translate. Actual game logic is more complex and will introduce additional bottlenecks.
Tomb raider is a bad port as these benchmarks clearly illustrate. If it were any good, you would get better scaling on faster Mac GPUs. Performance on Intel GPUs barely matters as this hardware is on the lowest part of the performance spectrum and many other factors start paying a role.
Do you? They clearly asked what you have done and you responded with “this one” which doesn’t seem to be you.
People here debating if the M1 max is equivalent of a 3060 or a 3080 mobile and i'm here, just happy that we don't have to deal with intel iris sub low tier performance anymore.
Intel Xe on 11th gen is actually quite usable and better off than current M1/Pro/Max situation. Plus, you can complement with eGPU when plugged in.
Careful, that's a slippery slope. You will end up claiming that Classic Mac OS was better since it run Lemmings...
Your first point is a feature of windows as a platform, not the Xe. Your second point is even more confused. You just finished talking about Parallels as a pain but now on windows having two gpus (one ****** one and one power sucking one) is a bonus for… virtual machines. Brilliant.
Also, you can get native performance on a Mac vm on the M1 right now.
I read that you've done some comparison on yours. I supposed you referred to an M1 Mac.
I'm still waiting.
Game compatibility, ease of setup/use and cost with equivalent fps and sometimes at higher quality setting than M1 Pro.
Right? My god, this is so confusing. Are we talking about performance, compatibility or what?
So your plan to compare gaming performance between a Mac and a PC involved using Crossover?
Well, these things were obvious from the start. Sorry, who here is actually arguing that Macs have better compatibility with current games or that they are cheaper than gaming laptops with similar performance levels? What you say is so trivial that I am wondering why you even mention it.
This thread so far is discussing gaming performance, not compatibility. We all know that compatibility sucks.
It's not. Have you compared its performance between macOS and Windows? I've done it many times.
It's exactly 4X faster running on M1 Max than on M1.
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Parallels will give you essentially native performance for a Mac vm. You discussed using a Mac vm, not gaming.