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Is there any reason why these ARM iGPUs are so much worse than iGPUs from Intel and AMD? My 11th gen Intel CPU's Xe graphics completely outpaces my M1 Mac's and
by segasaturn 2y ago
Is there any reason why these ARM iGPUs are so much worse than iGPUs from Intel and AMD? My 11th gen Intel CPU's Xe graphics completely outpaces my M1 Mac's and something like a Ryzen 5 5600G destroys both.
- dagmx 2y agoI’m curious what benchmark you’re looking at. The M1 is a very competitive iGPU that is competitive with an Nvidia 1650. Are you looking at pure gaming performance and are you sure it’s not going through a translation layer? To quote Anandtech (https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested/3 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...) > Overall, the M1’s GPU starts off very strong here. At both Normal and High settings it’s well ahead of any other integrated GPU, and even a discrete Radeon RX 560X. Only once we get to NVIDIA’s GTX 1650 and better does the M1 finally run out of gas.
- segasaturn 2y agoNo benchmarks, just based on personal usage. I think I found the issue after posting that comment though, which is macOS's unhelpful deprecation of openGL support. The games that I play on macOS used OpenGL and will probably never implement Metal which is a shame. They were Apple Silicon native though, no translation. Games in question are Factorio and RuneScape.
- dagmx 2y agoAh yeah it’s possible individual games do perform poorly. But in a general sense the integrated GPU in the M series processors is closer in competition to a low/mid discrete GPU than the integrated GPUs in other brands.