I could buy the laptop and purchase 4K Editing / Gaming monitor or even a 48" LG OLED48C1 for the same price (considering LG makes the panel) and have a significantly larger editing display, as well as a significantly faster video rendering laptop and a gaming experience that can take advantage of actual 60fps performance across the board, and higher resolutions thank to DLSS. I can buy two RTX 3050 laptops and as a result have 2x the battery life allowing it to keep pace and exceed the Macbook. We aren't talking about display and battery life, and I've acknowledged those already away from the actual talking point GAMING PERFORMANCE. Why get to a completely different topic to feed your preference.
#GAMING ON A MAC PRO PRO#
"So should you get the M1 Air or the M1 Pro? If you’re gaming, go Windows! But if you’re looking for the added grunt to power your creative projects, it’s well worth springing for a laptop packing the new M1 Pro chip." And let’s be honest here, if you’re looking for a pure gaming machine, you’ll be better off with a Windows laptop. "But buying decisions are much more complicated than that.
#GAMING ON A MAC PRO PC#
"How does the M1 Air compare to the new M1 Pro? Is the M1 Pro, which is twice as expensive as the M1 Air, worth its 2,000 dollars price tag?"Īnd the PC comparisons come directly from the articleġ. "M1 Pro vs M1 gaming on Mac: Is the Pro worth it?".Ģ. You can go up to the 3050 ti for an extra $100 - $200 and have 2x the performance and still be around 1/2 the cost.ġ. It's a great processor for low power options, but it's also twice as much as comparable products in the market. The reason I listed that was to give those without a tech background some comparable that they can comprehend performance wise.Īnd the value is definitely not there in comparison to it's competition which like for like performance wise would be the high end RTX 3050 ti laptops which are half the price, which offer once again similar CPU performance (considering that most of these reviews are the 10-core, not the base 8-core version in the $2000 Macbook), but a 3050 ti is about 30% faster in gaming on average, with it being nearly 2x as fast in some games due to the lack of optimization on MacOS games, and that's before adding Raytracing and DLSS into the equation.
#GAMING ON A MAC PRO SERIES#
Once again this is Xbox Series S performance (slightly better CPU, slightly weaker GPU) being sold in a $2000 laptop with bare bones upgradability unless you want to get scalped directly by Apple, and even worse repair options.ĪBizzel1 100d once did I say it was in competition with the console. The problem with this specific processor, however, is the company behind it, Apple. They've already had the Snapdragon 8cx on the windows side of things, and NVIDIA's attempt to buy ARM is specifically for this future and getting Tegra to be significantly more mainstream. The processor is a great example of what Ultrabooks and Entry level laptops will soon become (which will eventually trickle down into handhelds like a Switch 3 / Steam Deck 2 / etc.). There's also the Max, which has 2x the GPU cores, but also a big increase in TDP (around 90w - 120w). The M1 Pro is basically an Xbox Series S equivalent APU, but running at half the TDP (40w vs 80w) which is hugely important for laptop battery life (lasting easily into 10+ hours for most workloads compared to 3 - 6 for most other laptops). The level of performance is great at that level of power consumption.