This was developed on a DirectX 12 only Engine so this allowed easier porting over to MacOS. DirectX 11 is no longer in the mix so any game developed on a DirectX 12 Engine like Unreal Engine 5 should make easy porting to MacOS, Linux and even Android. DirectX 11 was programmed/designed to favor NVIDIA and although for good reason, that's no longer the case anymore due to the fact the M-Series, Intels new graphics line and AMD are saturating more of the market than NVIDIA's CUDA. Its would be a dumb business move for any gaming company to pass up more profit now that GPUs are fast enough on all sides of the fence and not just Windows.
When Apple is such a tiny fraction of the gaming market the last thing they should be doing is trying to get exclusives. That wouldn’t convince gamers to switch to Mac it’ll just convince gamers not to get those games.
They'd have to see what people who use Macs like, instead of just doing random games and putting the worst devs to the biggest projects like Stadia or Xbox. I'd bet if they did a TLOU styled game some people would buy a Mac to play it or try their best to do a hackintosh
4:40 It's not quite accurate to say that the game is not native because it was written in C#. The *scripting* is done in C# (which is not uncommon in game development) but the lower-level engine code that are in charge of talking to the OS are probably C++-based. Pretty much all game engines today have a higher level scripting component for faster iteration and safer coding for gameplay programmers, and the engine provides hooks into the C++ graphics/engine code that are more optimized for performance.
I love it. Being able to play it on my M1 Max 16" with native resolution or external in 4k and an almost locked 60fps at max settings and MetalFX quality is just pure bliss.
I hope capcom brings Monster Hunter and some of their collections (Mega Man, Pheonix Wright, beat ‘em up collection, etc.) I would love to see some Square Enix ports as well (WITH CONTROLLER SUPPORT).
Very good video and rundown. Metal 3 APIs should give us more games of this quality. Also, Apple should have put something like this into Apple Arcade to breathe new life into the service.
@@ChrisKempczinskiMcD no. It's the same story with every 1st gen Apple product. The 1st generation is crazy overpriced, and only gets software support for 1 year. It's basically a beta test. The 2nd and 3rd gen will be much cheaper and will get updates for much longer. And it won't be very useful unless they give it the full version MacOS. iPads are still pretty useless compared to Macs.
So glad you were able to do the M1 Max performance test, I was wondering how it would run on my Mac Studio and it looks like it should run pretty well. Downloading now...
@@diverman1023 I agree with your point 100%. I would have bought this game on steam if that version was also compatible with mac. But, no way am I going to cough up $40+ for only the mac version when I also have a high-end gaming PC
Here and there I've seen people request DigitalFoundry to cover an technological analysis, but on all fronts, you are the guy who has the platform knowledge and understanding to do this. Thank you for this video, you cover so many facets and even for a newcomer it's a great introduction of what can be achieved with this hardware if a game is ported properly.
I would like a special video from them discussing mac gaming and using this game as a jumping point, but other than it just being an interesting one off vid from them this guy is definitely the guy to go to for mac gaming.
@Muhammad Ehtasam what are you even talking about? Max textures eats up exactly 8gb of memory. GTX 1070 can’t run full-quality even at 1080p in this game.
since Apple Silicon is on iPads as well, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to play this on iPad. that would be a game changer for sure. people already travel with an iPad when going on vacation/business trips. you won't have to take something like a steam deck/switch with you. I see a lot of potential for this if Apple and game devs focus on gaming on Apple devices
I haven’t owned a Mac in 5 years. So glad I switched to PC. The last Mac gaming experience I had was Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2007), and that was a disaster to play through. Modern Mac gaming is just the same. Oh god. 😂
I will happily accept Mac App Store exclusivity if that's what it takes to convince more AAA devs to port their games over. I'm not a huge fan of horror shooters but more than happy to buy it and try it out to send Capcom the message that people do play games on Macs.
I suspect they did not want to mess around with touch controls for it. Sure, they could´ve made it controller only, but I think Apple doesn´t allow such apps on the AppStore.
Simply not possible. Ipads use entirely different operating systems..ipad os is a mere modded version of ios..nothing near a mac os. So its very unlikely when they literally have 2 or 3 aaa games for mac os itself.
A direct port no, a mobile version created for just that is possible, think RE revelations for 3DS. It would mean creating a game from the ground up which I doubt will ever happen. At least a port of RE4 would be nice. The M series has a lot of potential and could compete with the Steam Deck platform + controller if theres an effort put forth.
I really do appreciate the info to adjust settings. I've been running it on my iMac and experienced some issues but the only one related to graphics was when I was using the flashlight. So hopefully this could help!
Been waiting for this Mr. Mac Right! If you can you should ask feral or hello games when no man’s sky and grid legends will come out. Also ask parallels and crossover what timeline of incorporating Metal 3 improvements
I hope this means we will get more big games on Mac. I bought it on Mac despite owning a PS5. I wanted to make sure they know people want games on Mac. I've been playing it on an M1 Max Mac Studio and it's wonderful.
Technically it's fab on M1 air - even the base model. It's great on M1 Max Studio too - on a 38" wide screen at native res but it's a tiny game! Nobody is mentioning that the game itself is like a section of RE 4. I was merrily playing when the store keeper informed me to buy all I needed as I won't see him again and I was only 10 hours into it! 60 plus hours on Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 and I am going to finish RE 8 in a few days, big dissapointment on that side. It's fun, looks great but can't hold a candle to RE4 in terms of size and gameplay. It's about the size of a DLC for the Witcher 3 (that cost $3)
It's on Steam! Not sure if you can buy the macOS version on there but you can definitely buy the Windows version, and maybe even run it on Linux using Proton. I play my RE games on Steam Deck.
One bad thing you usually does in every single testing video, it's the way you try to estabilize FPS into a specific graphic preset, instead of actually testing how much FPS this certain machine can achieve. Like, i can perfectly see that M2 can run above 30 FPS at High because it doesn't slowdown the FPS even a lil' bit, just let me see its true potential, goddamit.
Wish we had advanced haptics and adaptive triggers with the Dualsense but Capcom just refuses to add it even on the Windows version. Also dissapointing the expansion was not included or maybe at 50 bucks with the main game. Just finished the Rose DLC and it´s really good so if you liked the main game, I highly recommend it, plus third person mode for the main campaign is a nice change of pace. Really nice port but RE Village is also pretty well optimised on Windows to be fair.
Great review, I just don't get this low CPU and GPU usage. Like 20% od GPU used and running at 30fps. Why it's not using 100% od GPU and be like 60+ fps?? I think there is more optimisation to be done here.
I play on the M1 Max 16" which has 10 GB GPU. In the settings you can see thr maximum GPU usage based on your settings. I play on native resolution, HDR on, everything else almost as high as possible (ending up above 8 GB). The game looks absolutely stunning, runs totally smooth, fans stay relatively quiet, and you can even play more than 2 hours unplugged. I did not track fps (I did not cap fps in settings), but did not see any faults. To me it shows what is possible when a game is actually optimized for the machine. And guys, the difference with HDR on is amazing. HDR in this game absolutely blew me away on the macs screen.
PS: I think MetalFX upscaling works extremely well. I don‘t know, but too me all that matters is that I can run the game very smoothly with almost maxed settings with HDR and native resolution. Looks absolutely brilliant.
@@patsw3806 I've seen the HDR in the game using an OLED TV and it looks great but I've only seen it though video as I don't own the game. My laptop's HDR isn't worth turning on though.
@@patsw3806 I'm curious to see how MetalFX upscaling compares to FSR, XeSS, and DLSS as those all look great but have their ups and downs quality wise. I know DLSS is the best though and I doubt MetalFX is as good as DLSS
I think from a technical standpoint, the performance is impressive across all M1 chips there, when we consider how much power these chips consume. I don't expect high-end gaming PC level of performance even from M1 Max, considering M1 Max Studio's maximum power consumption is rated at 115 W, while a high end gaming PC could consume many times more. Of course it doesn't mean M1 Max is a good gaming system when we consider the cost, but I'm still excited about how much performance these Apple chip is able to bring, and would love to see more games being optimize for it.
My only gripe is that on my M1 MacBook air, the audio in cut scenes are so out of sync. I'm hearing the plot move first before seeing the action on the screen. Playing the game in open locations is perfectly fine though!
I think at the 11:15 mark the frame rate markers have been positioned the wrong way around? The right hand side looks reconstructed and a bit smoother, though it's hard to tell from the short clip.
I honestly don't think that i would waste my time playing on an apple device since Windows PCs and even Linux does do a way better job in that era, but, it's nice to know how it performs, which is nuts compared to a PC with even a 3060 GPU
Looks like Apple Silicon is pretty heavily starved for memory bandwidth or memory in general. The CPU and GPU clearly aren't a bottleneck since they've been doing basically nothing in all these tests. M1 Pro should theoretically have half-ish or a bit more of the performance of the M1 Max in terms of the GPU alone (GPUs usually don't scale completely linearly with more cores/CUs/whatever the manufacturer calls them), but it doesn't. You get, with default settings, 1080p 60+-ish with noticeable dips but on the M1 Max you get 1440p at double the frame rate. So either the CPU or the GPU (more likely the GPU) isn't getting data fast enough.
Ultra64. Compliments for the review. While i’ve not a lot of time to play, and i’m not a fan of horror fps (I’m more for strategy rpg xcom-like or uncharted…), I had to purchase this game for my Studio Ultra 64 even just to… sustain the “AAA Mac movement” 😂 Just as a final note… I maxed out everything on my Ultra (64 GPUs 64GB) on 1440p at 60fps and it works beautifully (obviously). Unluckily my pro monitor is capped to 60Hz and 1440p, so… I couldnt make other tests. Let’s buy this game so to sustain mac gaming ;)))
A really comprehensive walk-through, that's awesome - thanks. I'm not sure how the commercials stack up but I'd have thought, given the spend profile of Mac users, there's some value in game devs porting properly to Apple Silicon/Metal especially for franchises which reuse a common engine. As that software base builds it would be good to see an M2/M2Pro version of Apple TV (with Apple Arcade+) to entice AAA development. I wonder if 4K high on an M1 Ultra beats the ~120fps on a 3090 😉
@@daveh6356 yes there a ton of videos of a 3090 with higher frames and higher settings at 4k. Don’t get me wrong the M1 Max is great. These however are nowhere near graphics parity with modern high level gaming GPUs. Not even close.
@@justinstewart3248 hence mentioning the M1 Ultra, the Max seems to hold its own with PC laptop GPUs. It'll be good to see settings parity comparisons. I notice HDR isn't mentioned so much on the PC so it's hard to directly compare.
I love your videos. I do like Apple (iPhone, Apple Watch, etc) but i kept my pc and laptop with Nvidia and AMD. I do not know if this stupid. But why it does not use 100% of the GPU to get much better fps.
You can easily crank this to 1440 and not really notice any frame rate issues. Have already completed the game on this resolution on my M1 iMac (2021). Impressed with how good this port is. Even if it is just another walking simulator.
you are saying stuff like: uses 30% of cpu/gpu, but that seems like it's not very well optimised. That tells me you could still get up to 2x better performance on the same cpu if it were optimised better. I wonder if any future updates will address this
It's great to eventually see a AAA Game on MacOS. But tbh this is nothing Apple should be proud of...instead they should be full of shame advertising and selling as the super graphic gaming experience. Well, if Apple really wanna go further into the gaming sector, they need to work very hard to get the price down. For around 1000€ you will get a 1440p 120hz+ gaming pc, whereas looking from your testing you need a Mac with M1 Max...to be frankly this is not anywhere competeable. Even last gene console can compete with M1 Macs and talking about current gene console that support up to 120hz.....if you want gaming you better off with a current gene console or gaming....Imagnine spending the price of a Mac M1 Max in a gaming PC you can easily play in 4K 144Hz...Apple has a long way to go... Great comparison and testing...it was really eye opening to me.
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I'd love to see Apple splash some cash around on AAA Metal 3/Apple Silicon exclusives that really use all the features like the neural engine
This was developed on a DirectX 12 only Engine so this allowed easier porting over to MacOS. DirectX 11 is no longer in the mix so any game developed on a DirectX 12 Engine like Unreal Engine 5 should make easy porting to MacOS, Linux and even Android. DirectX 11 was programmed/designed to favor NVIDIA and although for good reason, that's no longer the case anymore due to the fact the M-Series, Intels new graphics line and AMD are saturating more of the market than NVIDIA's CUDA. Its would be a dumb business move for any gaming company to pass up more profit now that GPUs are fast enough on all sides of the fence and not just Windows.
When Apple is such a tiny fraction of the gaming market the last thing they should be doing is trying to get exclusives. That wouldn’t convince gamers to switch to Mac it’ll just convince gamers not to get those games.
@@Freshbott2 "Apple is such a tiny fraction of the gaming market"
Since apple silicon, it's not true anymore. ;)
@@zsoltika007 Maybe slightly bigger than before, but still too small for any AAA game company to seriously consider.
They'd have to see what people who use Macs like, instead of just doing random games and putting the worst devs to the biggest projects like Stadia or Xbox.
I'd bet if they did a TLOU styled game some people would buy a Mac to play it or try their best to do a hackintosh
4:40 It's not quite accurate to say that the game is not native because it was written in C#. The *scripting* is done in C# (which is not uncommon in game development) but the lower-level engine code that are in charge of talking to the OS are probably C++-based. Pretty much all game engines today have a higher level scripting component for faster iteration and safer coding for gameplay programmers, and the engine provides hooks into the C++ graphics/engine code that are more optimized for performance.
I love it. Being able to play it on my M1 Max 16" with native resolution or external in 4k and an almost locked 60fps at max settings and MetalFX quality is just pure bliss.
I hope capcom brings Monster Hunter and some of their collections (Mega Man, Pheonix Wright, beat ‘em up collection, etc.) I would love to see some Square Enix ports as well (WITH CONTROLLER SUPPORT).
Very good video and rundown. Metal 3 APIs should give us more games of this quality. Also, Apple should have put something like this into Apple Arcade to breathe new life into the service.
Arcade+ a premium addition for AAA
@@daveh6356you know this is coming.
If Apple wants their VR headset to become popular, they will have to port AAA games to it.
🤦♂️ dude VR gaming is not as big as you think.
@@evacody1249 it will be eventually when the technology catches up. It still has A LOT of room to improve.
@@ChrisKempczinskiMcD no. It's the same story with every 1st gen Apple product. The 1st generation is crazy overpriced, and only gets software support for 1 year. It's basically a beta test. The 2nd and 3rd gen will be much cheaper and will get updates for much longer. And it won't be very useful unless they give it the full version MacOS. iPads are still pretty useless compared to Macs.
You've outdone yourself here! GREAT review/analysis!!
So glad you were able to do the M1 Max performance test, I was wondering how it would run on my Mac Studio and it looks like it should run pretty well. Downloading now...
Apple needs to bring more AAA titles. This may end up selling more macs as well!
yah.. it seems like a waste of powerful hardware to be honest :O
the issue is that this game isn't on Steam, it's on the Mac app store. Nobody who games seriously wants to use the Mac app store
@@diverman1023 I agree with your point 100%. I would have bought this game on steam if that version was also compatible with mac. But, no way am I going to cough up $40+ for only the mac version when I also have a high-end gaming PC
Here and there I've seen people request DigitalFoundry to cover an technological analysis, but on all fronts, you are the guy who has the platform knowledge and understanding to do this.
Thank you for this video, you cover so many facets and even for a newcomer it's a great introduction of what can be achieved with this hardware if a game is ported properly.
I would like a special video from them discussing mac gaming and using this game as a jumping point, but other than it just being an interesting one off vid from them this guy is definitely the guy to go to for mac gaming.
Well they did and it was vastly better in terms of quality of analysis
It runs sooo good it is incredible. On Mac Studio M1 Max I get 60-77fps on 4K with everything max.
What core and GPU setup do you have?
@@77dris M1 Max 32-Core GPU
@Muhammad Ehtasam what are you even talking about? Max textures eats up exactly 8gb of memory. GTX 1070 can’t run full-quality even at 1080p in this game.
@Muhammad Ehtasam «maxed out» while it can’t allocate required amount of VRAM for max settings. I see…
Shadows of Rose is now also available for the Mac. It's an in app purchase
Fantastic job on this!
Waiting for the apple tv 4k performance test
since Apple Silicon is on iPads as well, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to play this on iPad. that would be a game changer for sure. people already travel with an iPad when going on vacation/business trips. you won't have to take something like a steam deck/switch with you. I see a lot of potential for this if Apple and game devs focus on gaming on Apple devices
It works on Ipad same as tomb raider you just need to tweak it. I have both installed on my M1 ipad pro
I haven’t owned a Mac in 5 years. So glad I switched to PC. The last Mac gaming experience I had was Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2007), and that was a disaster to play through. Modern Mac gaming is just the same. Oh god. 😂
I will happily accept Mac App Store exclusivity if that's what it takes to convince more AAA devs to port their games over. I'm not a huge fan of horror shooters but more than happy to buy it and try it out to send Capcom the message that people do play games on Macs.
Thanks for the video, great work, answered all my questions👍
This is a great step forward for Mac gaming! Purchasing on my payday!
Was waiting for this! I wonder if Mac will get Street Fighter 6 or Resident Evil 4 Remake next year? 🤔
I want all resident evil remakes to mac lol
playing on base MacBook Air M1. Just activate MetalFX in quality mode and 60 fps unlocked.
Getting good performance and good image overall.
This is amazing! Thank You for sharing! Hope to see more games on Mac in the future!
I’d love to see a mobile version for M1 and M2 iPad Pros.
I suspect they did not want to mess around with touch controls for it. Sure, they could´ve made it controller only, but I think Apple doesn´t allow such apps on the AppStore.
@iFruit ipad pro can get 16
Simply not possible. Ipads use entirely different operating systems..ipad os is a mere modded version of ios..nothing near a mac os. So its very unlikely when they literally have 2 or 3 aaa games for mac os itself.
A direct port no, a mobile version created for just that is possible, think RE revelations for 3DS. It would mean creating a game from the ground up which I doubt will ever happen. At least a port of RE4 would be nice. The M series has a lot of potential and could compete with the Steam Deck platform + controller if theres an effort put forth.
@@Hehehe-hf7rq well it would e very easy to run macos on m1 ipad but they chose not to
thanks for going in depth on this, really helpful
I really do appreciate the info to adjust settings. I've been running it on my iMac and experienced some issues but the only one related to graphics was when I was using the flashlight. So hopefully this could help!
Been waiting for this Mr. Mac Right! If you can you should ask feral or hello games when no man’s sky and grid legends will come out. Also ask parallels and crossover what timeline of incorporating Metal 3 improvements
9:48 loved it
I hope this means we will get more big games on Mac. I bought it on Mac despite owning a PS5. I wanted to make sure they know people want games on Mac. I've been playing it on an M1 Max Mac Studio and it's wonderful.
Im not even great fan of the game but still got it to show support that mac users want games on the system
thank you for reviewing 1080p performance
Continue your work is amazing
Technically it's fab on M1 air - even the base model. It's great on M1 Max Studio too - on a 38" wide screen at native res but it's a tiny game! Nobody is mentioning that the game itself is like a section of RE 4. I was merrily playing when the store keeper informed me to buy all I needed as I won't see him again and I was only 10 hours into it! 60 plus hours on Cyberpunk and Dying Light 2 and I am going to finish RE 8 in a few days, big dissapointment on that side. It's fun, looks great but can't hold a candle to RE4 in terms of size and gameplay. It's about the size of a DLC for the Witcher 3 (that cost $3)
It's impressive! I hope to see it on Steam.
It's on Steam! Not sure if you can buy the macOS version on there but you can definitely buy the Windows version, and maybe even run it on Linux using Proton. I play my RE games on Steam Deck.
@@koshobai I mean I hope to see macOS version on Steam. I already bought it but can’t play on mac.
Looking forward to more apple silicon native games
One bad thing you usually does in every single testing video, it's the way you try to estabilize FPS into a specific graphic preset, instead of actually testing how much FPS this certain machine can achieve.
Like, i can perfectly see that M2 can run above 30 FPS at High because it doesn't slowdown the FPS even a lil' bit, just let me see its true potential, goddamit.
Wish we had advanced haptics and adaptive triggers with the Dualsense but Capcom just refuses to add it even on the Windows version.
Also dissapointing the expansion was not included or maybe at 50 bucks with the main game. Just finished the Rose DLC and it´s really good so if you liked the main game, I highly recommend it, plus third person mode for the main campaign is a nice change of pace.
Really nice port but RE Village is also pretty well optimised on Windows to be fair.
I’m glad we finally got a good game on Mac I hope capcom brings more to mac in the future
I have this game on PS5 already but I'm tempted to get it on my M1 Max Studio just for the 120fps experience
Thank you for this video. I hope that Apple gaming quality will go up with Metal 3.
time to make it for iPad Pro
Thank you Mr MacRight!
maybe i’m reading this wrong, but what is the limiting factor for frame rate when the gpu and cpu usage is so low?
Yeah the usage statistics made no sense to me. At least one of those should be pegged at 100%.
Amazing video, very detailed as always! Thanks!
This should come to iPad and iPhones
Come on Apple bring Overwatch 2 to the Mac plz
Fantastic video! I am impressed how M1 is able to play such a demanding game using far less energy than comparable consoles and gaming PCs.
Fantastic video! I hope it’s successful enough to bring us RE4 & SF6.
In theory could this game be adapted to run on the iPad Pro with the M chips?
shouln't at least one between GPU/CPU be utilized closer to 100%? ... Is it due to thermal throttling that they are so under-utilised?
Great review, I just don't get this low CPU and GPU usage. Like 20% od GPU used and running at 30fps. Why it's not using 100% od GPU and be like 60+ fps?? I think there is more optimisation to be done here.
That's my question too. GPU usage shouldn't be anywhere near that low in a game that's this graphically intensive
I play on the M1 Max 16" which has 10 GB GPU. In the settings you can see thr maximum GPU usage based on your settings. I play on native resolution, HDR on, everything else almost as high as possible (ending up above 8 GB). The game looks absolutely stunning, runs totally smooth, fans stay relatively quiet, and you can even play more than 2 hours unplugged. I did not track fps (I did not cap fps in settings), but did not see any faults.
To me it shows what is possible when a game is actually optimized for the machine.
And guys, the difference with HDR on is amazing. HDR in this game absolutely blew me away on the macs screen.
PS: I think MetalFX upscaling works extremely well. I don‘t know, but too me all that matters is that I can run the game very smoothly with almost maxed settings with HDR and native resolution. Looks absolutely brilliant.
@@patsw3806 I've seen the HDR in the game using an OLED TV and it looks great but I've only seen it though video as I don't own the game. My laptop's HDR isn't worth turning on though.
@@patsw3806 I'm curious to see how MetalFX upscaling compares to FSR, XeSS, and DLSS as those all look great but have their ups and downs quality wise. I know DLSS is the best though and I doubt MetalFX is as good as DLSS
we need more of those games !
Metro Exodus was the biggest Mac release and works well.
Why does it only use so little GPU power? Imagine how much better it would be if it had 100% utilisation.
I wonder if my M2 base Macbook Air would heat up with this game on?
Does not , around 35-40c at 50-60 fps
@@HANDBANANAxoxo wow that’s fantastic! i’m buying the game. thanks!!!
Most of the options you mention don't appear for me, how are you modifying those settings?
I think from a technical standpoint, the performance is impressive across all M1 chips there, when we consider how much power these chips consume.
I don't expect high-end gaming PC level of performance even from M1 Max, considering M1 Max Studio's maximum power consumption is rated at 115 W, while a high end gaming PC could consume many times more.
Of course it doesn't mean M1 Max is a good gaming system when we consider the cost, but I'm still excited about how much performance these Apple chip is able to bring, and would love to see more games being optimize for it.
perf/wat vs perf/value
Just bought and played this after your video. Thank you. Did not disappoint. I’m running m1air/8 core gpu/16gb and it runs super smooth 60fps
As Long time PC gamer and NVIDIA graphics card user
I hope NVIDIA will work with Apple again
I'm still waiting for the native Steam app... But great review thanks...
This game runs so much better and at 1080p max settings with 16gb ram on M1. The GPU gets 8.6gb allocated to it
My only gripe is that on my M1 MacBook air, the audio in cut scenes are so out of sync. I'm hearing the plot move first before seeing the action on the screen. Playing the game in open locations is perfectly fine though!
damn if resident evil 4 remake came to mac that would be pretty gnarly
Can you try the new Apple TV 3rd gen with games, please?
What a GREAT VIDEO!!!
I'd be curious to see how the game performs with the M1 Ultra. can you make a video?
Not a big FPS player, but I’d bet I’ll try it.
How does this compare to a PC? E.g. laptop with 1650ti or 3050ti
I will invest in this and wait for the monster hunter to come with the macOS.
I think at the 11:15 mark the frame rate markers have been positioned the wrong way around? The right hand side looks reconstructed and a bit smoother, though it's hard to tell from the short clip.
I honestly don't think that i would waste my time playing on an apple device since Windows PCs and even Linux does do a way better job in that era, but, it's nice to know how it performs, which is nuts compared to a PC with even a 3060 GPU
I really don't understand low CPU/GPU utilisation. Maxed out settings and GPU utilisation at 50%?
I wonder if m1 iPad Pro would be able to play it
Looks like Apple Silicon is pretty heavily starved for memory bandwidth or memory in general. The CPU and GPU clearly aren't a bottleneck since they've been doing basically nothing in all these tests.
M1 Pro should theoretically have half-ish or a bit more of the performance of the M1 Max in terms of the GPU alone (GPUs usually don't scale completely linearly with more cores/CUs/whatever the manufacturer calls them), but it doesn't. You get, with default settings, 1080p 60+-ish with noticeable dips but on the M1 Max you get 1440p at double the frame rate. So either the CPU or the GPU (more likely the GPU) isn't getting data fast enough.
Can this be played on a MacBook Air ?
I'm not into gaming hardware but why are those using less than 100% of the power?
Ultra64. Compliments for the review. While i’ve not a lot of time to play, and i’m not a fan of horror fps (I’m more for strategy rpg xcom-like or uncharted…), I had to purchase this game for my Studio Ultra 64 even just to… sustain the “AAA Mac movement” 😂 Just as a final note… I maxed out everything on my Ultra (64 GPUs 64GB) on 1440p at 60fps and it works beautifully (obviously). Unluckily my pro monitor is capped to 60Hz and 1440p, so… I couldnt make other tests. Let’s buy this game so to sustain mac gaming ;)))
So no 4K 60 on M1PRO? Sad… I should’ve gotten a MAX 😢
Why didn't you tested it on m1 ultra? How does it perform in m1 ultra vs m1 max??
It's overkill
A really comprehensive walk-through, that's awesome - thanks.
I'm not sure how the commercials stack up but I'd have thought, given the spend profile of Mac users, there's some value in game devs porting properly to Apple Silicon/Metal especially for franchises which reuse a common engine. As that software base builds it would be good to see an M2/M2Pro version of Apple TV (with Apple Arcade+) to entice AAA development.
I wonder if 4K high on an M1 Ultra beats the ~120fps on a 3090 😉
No, there’s no chance that it does
@@justinstewart3248 what evidence do you have for this? The M1 Max achieves 60fps already.
@@daveh6356 yes there a ton of videos of a 3090 with higher frames and higher settings at 4k. Don’t get me wrong the M1 Max is great. These however are nowhere near graphics parity with modern high level gaming GPUs. Not even close.
@@justinstewart3248 hence mentioning the M1 Ultra, the Max seems to hold its own with PC laptop GPUs. It'll be good to see settings parity comparisons. I notice HDR isn't mentioned so much on the PC so it's hard to directly compare.
@@daveh6356 yeah they can def hold their own with lap top GPUs
I love your videos. I do like Apple (iPhone, Apple Watch, etc) but i kept my pc and laptop with Nvidia and AMD. I do not know if this stupid. But why it does not use 100% of the GPU to get much better fps.
isnt it better the more cpu and gpu usage there is
why not fully use the gpu
honestly wee need CS 1.6 ported to new macs !
You can easily crank this to 1440 and not really notice any frame rate issues. Have already completed the game on this resolution on my M1 iMac (2021). Impressed with how good this port is. Even if it is just another walking simulator.
why does it only use 30% cpu and gpu? shouldn't it use... 100%? if it doesn't reach the cap fps
Does X-Plane 12 not support HDR on Mac? 🤔
how to setup the HDR brightness???
can you test dota 2 on M1 Max or Ultra pls 🙏🏽
13:50 why there is alot bottleneck gpu ???why not 90%+ ?? there is nothing like this on windows devices
why isnt it available via steam?
you are saying stuff like: uses 30% of cpu/gpu, but that seems like it's not very well optimised. That tells me you could still get up to 2x better performance on the same cpu if it were optimised better. I wonder if any future updates will address this
And everyone had forgotten that Macs even exist haha
is there any new game coming for mac os for intel or intel macs are done for and we will never be able to get the pleasure of playing games on mac
Oh wow first game in years. So much wow. And my intel pro doesnt support it. THANKS APPLE MUCH APPRECIATED.
It's great to eventually see a AAA Game on MacOS. But tbh this is nothing Apple should be proud of...instead they should be full of shame advertising and selling as the super graphic gaming experience. Well, if Apple really wanna go further into the gaming sector, they need to work very hard to get the price down. For around 1000€ you will get a 1440p 120hz+ gaming pc, whereas looking from your testing you need a Mac with M1 Max...to be frankly this is not anywhere competeable. Even last gene console can compete with M1 Macs and talking about current gene console that support up to 120hz.....if you want gaming you better off with a current gene console or gaming....Imagnine spending the price of a Mac M1 Max in a gaming PC you can easily play in 4K 144Hz...Apple has a long way to go...
Great comparison and testing...it was really eye opening to me.
So basically re village is not fully optimized for Apple Silicon
Can anyone please tell me whether we can play this game with nouse please???
Coolness.
If we suppose that RE Village runs with Metal 3, how can be possible to run the game on Monterey?
Because it can likely switch APIs like many PC games. Most games on PC support at least 2 APIs and can launch under DX11, DX12, and Vulkan.
Did anyone notice audio desync and lag in cutscenes? I found a lot of solutions for Windows but not for Mac OS. Anyone had this issue and found a fix?
What does he mean when he says stuff like "it uses X% of the GPU and CPU"?