I'm not sure - Apple's marketing claimed that the M1 was beating top end PC parts. This isn't even close.
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.
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.
Do they put M1 Ultra in laptops tho?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Products_that_use_the...
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.
Cyberpunk is known to be a VERY demanding open world game
on lowest setting, this should probably be fine
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?
"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.
At 900p? Steam Deck does just fine (and it's SOC is even older).
I would imagine that not running through this codeweavers patch and through rosetta would have better performance.
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.
Not sure how much of the bottleneck here is because of Rosetta though (i.e. cpu-bound) although I suspect not much really.
High-end games makes ton of use of SIMD instructions to gain massive boost, I wonder if that's translated properly