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I can play Subnautica, Prodeus, Total Warhammer III, WoW, Metro Exodus, etc. Various settings all at 1080p on the monitor I have connected externally. And that
by officeplant 4y ago
I can play Subnautica, Prodeus, Total Warhammer III, WoW, Metro Exodus, etc. Various settings all at 1080p on the monitor I have connected externally.
And that's on a base M1 macbook Air with the 7C GPU setup. Although it does have a fan rigged up underneath my laptop stand. Every other Apple Silicon Mac has even more gpu oomph.
Friends with M1/M2 Pro machines are plenty happy with their GPU performance but most of them all just play WoW. One with a M1 Max Studio is enjoying plenty of performance at 4K.
- Reason077 4y agoThere’s also a simple mod you can do to the MacBook Air (installing a thermal pad on the SoC) which significantly improves heat dissipation - check YouTube. I have a similar setup (except 8 core) and with the mod I don’t feel any need for an external fan for gaming.
- officeplant 4y agoYeah I was tempted to do it to make my fan cooling work even better, but I want to be able to resell this Air soon. It's being replaced with a M2 Mini with 24GB of RAM. Finally tired of the 8GB life.