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The m4 ultra is going to really make a case for Apple gaming without compromise, you know, except for the actual games :(
It won’t be ready for a bit for m4 but m3 and older can run asahi. Asahi now has support for steam so now you can run steam games on linux on Apple silicon with little to no setup. Works pretty well minus a 16gb ram requirement.
It’s very possible to do amazing ports. I was blown away by the Alien Isolation port on iOS. There just has to be a market to justify the work. And if iOS ports can be recompiled for Macs (and they can) so much the better.
They made an amazing graphics subsystem in Metal— it’s just very incompatible with everything else, so porting games to it is an outrageous pain in the ass.
Shame, really
Impressive
Based on the Metal scores that are available so far, the M4 Pro and M4 Max are up to around 40% and 25% faster for graphics than the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, respectively.
The new 16-inch MacBook Pro with the highest-end M4 Max with a 40-core GPU has up to 85% as fast graphics as the Mac Studio with the highest-end M2 Ultra chip with a 76-core GPU, despite having 36 fewer GPU cores, according to the results.
The performance of the Pro and Max are comparable to the Radeon 6600 XT and the 6900 XT or a GeForce RTX 2080 and the 3080 Ti, respectively.
Wow
