Keep in mind, it's getting 15fps at 1440x900. It's not saying that Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 is a great experience. It's merely pointing out that it's technically possible (which is a massive achievement).
GPU obviously not, but maybe that claim would hold water at some arbitrary wattage limit.
My takeaway is that the GPU “doesn’t completely suck” and that Apple are dedicating continuing resources to making their platform actually usable, which I was worried about. I mean, it seems difficult just to intentionally use the Apple Neural Engine, and impossible to explicitly use it, which makes testing aggravating. Any continued focus on improving developer experience for the coprocessors (GPU, ANE, R1, etc) is a good signal.
So the speed issue doesn't affect me personally. I just wish they wouldn't sell that model and then it wouldn't affect anyone.
Edit: I wrote Ultra, but I meant Max.
Do they put M1 Ultra in laptops tho?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Products_that_use_the...
If you are indeed doing AAA gaming, then you wouldn't have sufficient battery life without plugging in, or you wouldn't have sufficient performance.
Cyberpunk is known to be a VERY demanding open world game
on lowest setting, this should probably be fine
"this well" is more or less equivalent to a older Ryzen 3's native performance. Apple is really banking on developers recompiling for ARM to reduce overhead here.
I mean, here's the game on Ultra on a Steam Deck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHeso2jc_L0
Also this is the 1st gen M1, which was released in 2020, I wonder what's the performance like on the newest models?
At 900p? Steam Deck does just fine (and it's SOC is even older).
Your statement is quite misinformed.
First, this is the M1. Not M1 Pro. Not M1 Max. The M1 is almost 3 years old.
Second, this is being translated from DX12 to Metal and also x86 to ARM64. Yes, both the CPU and GPU layers are being translated.
Third, Apple claimed that the M1 Max was the most powerful GPU on laptops. It was probably true depending on what benchmarks.
Finally, this is Cyberpunk 2077 running in Ultra settings. It's the most demanding PC game ever.
High-end games makes ton of use of SIMD instructions to gain massive boost, I wonder if that's translated properly
https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2022/03/M1-vs-3090.jpg
Frustrating they're being this misleading when M1 is outstanding for it's own reasons, but 3090 eats it alive in the workflows it excels in too.
Perfect machine would be both those chips in the same box tbh.
People still parrot it.
I would imagine that not running through this codeweavers patch and through rosetta would have better performance.
Not sure how much of the bottleneck here is because of Rosetta though (i.e. cpu-bound) although I suspect not much really.
Then at that point games developers might be more inclined to give the platform explicit support.
Otherwise it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation: people aren't playing games on their macs because the library isn't there, the library isn't there because no developers will support a platform where there aren't gamers and so on.
I have a Steam Deck and a Mac. I would love to play half the games from my Deck on my laptop.
I have an older PC, and I'm thinking about replacing it with a macbook air and a steam deck. Does the steam deck feel more limiting than just having a windows PC with steam?