![]() ![]() For the price of a used base model Mac Pro, you can build roughly three mid-range gaming PCs.Įven when doing the "budget build" on the Mac side, it's less than ideal. I should know, I've researched this heavily, and always came to the same conclusion. Even when purchasing used from Ebay, that's easily a $5,000+ expenditure, which most likely involves purchasing the graphics card separately and replacing the older GPU inside the used Mac Pro. The best x86 gaming experience is the 2019 Mac Pro paired with a 6900XT AMD GPU. The best gaming Macs have also had a poor value proposition. ![]() Often times, the experience and value is better with an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU, which weren't options that Apple made available. What do you folks think? Does Emulation/Wine gaming on Apple Silicon outshine native Windows Boot Camp gaming? Is the compatibility of non-native Windows games on Apple Silicon too spotty to make broad comparison statements with Boot Camp? Is there hope for Emulation/Wine compatibility to improve much in the future?Įven during the height of Boot Camp compatibility, featuring performance Intel CPUs and AMD graphics, the Mac has never been a good gaming platform compared to what a hand-built Windows PC would offer. Of course desktop macs could be configured with even more powerful (and very expensive) GPU options, but the point is that it's conceivable that even in compatibility environments Apple Silicon gaming is generally an improvement (with the major caveat that not all Windows games are compatible with emulation and/or Wine). ![]() Certainly neither of those solutions is a perfect substitute for native gaming, but Apple Silicon is impressive enough that those options aren't half bad either.įor compatibility Boot Camp can't be beat, but considering that the AMD 5600M was the best laptop GPU prior to Apple Silicon Macs (correct me if I'm wrong) and considering that the mid-range M1 GPUs stomp the 5600M, my guess is that performance for Windows games running in compatibility environments on mid-range Apple Silicon compares favorably to performance in Boot Camp on the best MacBooks. Wine-based Crossover and Porting Kit) for Windows gaming. Parallels and VMware Fusion) or other compatibility softwares (e.g. Good points! There may be more pressure to port Mac native games now.though that pressure might be slightly lessoned by the viability of emulation (e.g. ![]()
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