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One of my recent MacBooks with i7-8569U is quite capable of gaming in 1280x800 (it looks good as it matches retina downscaling) in the usual Feral/Aspyr ports o
by bitL 7y ago
One of my recent MacBooks with i7-8569U is quite capable of gaming in 1280x800 (it looks good as it matches retina downscaling) in the usual Feral/Aspyr ports of games (on Mojave ofc, Catalina killed them off). AMD APUs should be even better, likely allowing 1080p gaming in mid-to-high details which could be good enough for many casual gamers.
- mikepurvis 7y agoOh yeah, it's certainly possible. I'm on a Dell XPS 9570 with a discrete GPU and I can play most stuff I've tried at the native 1080p. That's mostly indies and EGS freebies, but some of them definitely still give the GPU a workout, and in those cases I absolutely experience screaming fans, frame drops, etc, even when giving lots of clearance to the fan inlets. I get the impression that the GPU in this computer is much more intended for CAD, video processing, light AI work, etc than the kind of 100% duty cycle loading that running a game demands.