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Quite a lot, at least based on my experience using Steam and playing various games I’ve bought for my actual gaming PC, but have builds available for multiple p

by davely 4y ago

Quite a lot, at least based on my experience using Steam and playing various games I’ve bought for my actual gaming PC, but have builds available for multiple platforms. As long as they’re 64 bit builds, MacOS’s Rosetta translation layer does a great job of running then without a hitch. Apple Silicon is a beast. I wish more developers would take advantage of it.

krisroadruck 4y ago
This is only true if your primary game preference is casual games. The mac studio lacks a discrete graphics card. Ignoring the OS, the whole ARM vs x86, and Rosetta, wine, whatever stumbling blocks - just lack of a discrete GPU is enough to make it a no-go as a serious gaming rig. This isn't just me talking out of my neck either. I have 3 rigs I keep around my desk, and one of them is a mac studio. Great for dev and video editing, but for gaming not so much. Edit: "Why do you need 3 computers?" - I regularly switch between Windows, Ubuntu & MacOS, and I don't like dinking with switching my monitor inputs, dual booting or remoting in. Rather just swivel my chair. Yes I fully realize how ridiculous this is. Some people like nice cars. I like wasting money on computers apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- bitL 4y ago
  No worries, I have 12 computers around my desk...
amelius 4y ago
> Apple Silicon is a beast. I wish more developers would take advantage of it. It's consumer electronics. Not very useful for people who want to build things containing a CPU/GPU.
- jb1991 4y ago
  It’s a lot more than “consumer electronics”. When I upgraded my i7 last year for a base model M1 chip, I found that all of my c++ code ran vastly more quickly on a machine that cost about half as much as what it replaced. What is strange is that if you look at the raw specs, it should not have been near half in execution time —- there’s definitely some fascinating things going on in that chip. The unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon is particularly convenient for anyone building stuff using both a CPU and GPU.

by davely 4y ago

krisroadruck 4y ago

This is only true if your primary game preference is casual games. The mac studio lacks a discrete graphics card. Ignoring the OS, the whole ARM vs x86, and Rosetta, wine, whatever stumbling blocks - just lack of a discrete GPU is enough to make it a no-go as a serious gaming rig. This isn't just me talking out of my neck either. I have 3 rigs I keep around my desk, and one of them is a mac studio. Great for dev and video editing, but for gaming not so much. Edit: "Why do you need 3 computers?" - I regularly switch between Windows, Ubuntu & MacOS, and I don't like dinking with switching my monitor inputs, dual booting or remoting in. Rather just swivel my chair. Yes I fully realize how ridiculous this is. Some people like nice cars. I like wasting money on computers apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bitL 4y ago
No worries, I have 12 computers around my desk...

amelius 4y ago

> Apple Silicon is a beast. I wish more developers would take advantage of it. It's consumer electronics. Not very useful for people who want to build things containing a CPU/GPU.

jb1991 4y ago
It’s a lot more than “consumer electronics”. When I upgraded my i7 last year for a base model M1 chip, I found that all of my c++ code ran vastly more quickly on a machine that cost about half as much as what it replaced. What is strange is that if you look at the raw specs, it should not have been near half in execution time —- there’s definitely some fascinating things going on in that chip. The unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon is particularly convenient for anyone building stuff using both a CPU and GPU.