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Take anything from wccf with a grain of salt. And yeah, as others point out, this is Apples to oranges. x86 desktops are great at some things, M2 Ultras are gr
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Take anything from wccf with a grain of salt.
And yeah, as others point out, this is Apples to oranges. x86 desktops are great at some things, M2 Ultras are great at others, and the overlap that really matters is pretty small... Like, you have to be crazy to buy an M SoC for gaming, or buy a Nvidia GPU for workloads that won't fit in VRAM.
- perrohunter 3y agoI tested the new game porting kit on a Mac mini M2 and was surprised I was able to run Cyberpunk 2077 and it was running really well, I can imagine that more powerful M processors will be awesome, so the argument of games might go away soon
- katbyte 3y agoHow does it work? You install a windows game via steam and then tell it to port?
- stouset 3y agoIt’s basically Wine with a custom D12 translation to Metal calls. Right now it’s not really intended for end-users so the experience involves a lot of steps that aren’t consumer-friendly, but some folks are publishing wrappers that simplify the process. I imagine that in the future, something like Steam will wrap this functionality to provide the ability to run the whole library under the toolkit. And individually-published games will do the same so they install and run with a more consumer-friendly experience.
- imbnwa 3y agoCurious about settings for an idea of the ceiling, that game is insanely unoptimized
- Grazester 3y agoWhat is really well? Can me have a metric? What resolution and what frame rate?
- tzekid 3y agoSomething like: M1 MBA, around 12 FPS Ultra settings or high 30s on Medium at 1440p ( max res. apparently )
- brucethemoose2 3y agoSo can my old 14" RTX 2060 laptop, on a 4K TV. I have seen the demos, but I am skeptical of the actual practicality or value proposition until a 3rd party publishes some frametime benchmarks, and games out in the wild get battle tested.
- tzekid 3y agoYep, but an avg. RTX 2060 laptop consumes 3x - 4x the wattage of an M2, no?