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Given the support for major gaming engines, Steam VR, and changes within Metal 2, is it wrong to be optimistic for Mac gaming? If the takeaway from this WWDC c
by goodroot 9y ago
Given the support for major gaming engines, Steam VR, and changes within Metal 2, is it wrong to be optimistic for Mac gaming?
If the takeaway from this WWDC could be potential gaming parity with Windows, that's a really big deal for me. Me being the segment of Pro users who need to work on a Mac and want to game natively on one, too.
- dkonofalski 9y agoThis is where I am and I'm already doing VR dev and playing lots of VR stuff. If this is where Apple jumps in, then I'm super excited.
- modeless 9y agoOptimism would be warranted if they announced Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 and a commitment to update their product line with new internal GPUs more frequently and at reasonable prices. Thunderbolt 3 has less than half the bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0 x16 so that's a lame solution for GPU upgradability.
- floatboth 9y agoGPUs don't really use the whole 3.0 x16 bandwidth, x8 is enough. It is sad that they didn't drop Metal in favor of Vulkan, yeah.
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- squaredpants 9y agoI think some do now... And even if they do not, they will in the near future!