In a recent interview with foreign tech media TechCrunch, Apple executives admitted that there are still gaps in gaming on the Mac. Another media outlet, MacWorld, thinks Apple Silicon is great, but the overall gaming experience on the Mac is as frustrating as ever. If Apple wants to attract gamers, it needs to improve in many areas.
Here is a description of game performance from Apple’s Mac Mini official website: “The amazing graphics processing performance of M2 or M2 Pro allows you to play graphics-intensive 3A game masterpieces such as “Pascal’s Contract” and enjoy smoothness. High frame rate and high fidelity picture.”
In the review, foreign technology media MacWorld bought a new Mac Mini with an M2 Pro chip, 16GB of memory, and a 1TB SSD for $1,800, which can indeed handle most AAA games.
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With Prioritize Graphics mode preset to 1080P resolution, the frame rate of the tested games ranged from 70-120fps. With MetalFX Upscaling on in Quality mode, performance can be increased by about 30%. You can even crank it up to 4K and output at 40-60fps in Prioritize Graphics mode.
That said, Apple Mac gaming performance is fine, but there’s no advantage for Windows PCs at the same price point, and the number of games available for the platform is still very small.
Tim Millet, Apple’s chip designer, also admitted that there are gaps in the Apple Silicon chip for gaming. He said Apple will not use the tagline “Mac is a great gaming platform” in its communications, but Apple will continue to improve Apple Silicon’s gaming performance in the future.
Valve recently released its Steam hardware and software survey for January 2023. In terms of operating systems, the percentage of Linux players has not changed, while the number of macOS players has increased by 0.13 percentage points compared to the previous month, with a current share of 2.61%.
