Macs are not perceived by users as ideal gaming hardware for a number of reasons, including the lack of support for games in the macOS operating system. However, if we were to ignore this fact, we would find that Macs are also incomparable in terms of image transfer to an external monitor. For this, the vast majority of gamers use HDMI, which is limited to a certain frame rate depending on the version. In other words, it doesn't matter to a certain extent how powerful the computer actually is, because even the best performance can'tonec because of bad HDMI you can't convert to a frame rate that makes the game really worth it. However, it seems that this is the case with new MacBookFor theonetoonec, which to some extent opens the door for more interesting gaming.
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Macy's at the forefront with a series MacBook Pro have only had HDMI version 2.0, which is limited to a refresh rate of 60Hz and therefore de facto 60 fps. The problem, however, is that it is especially important for action games to have more fps, so version 2.0 represented a major limitation for Macs in this regard. Introduced on Tuesday MacBooky For however konehave recently received HDMI 2.1, which overcomes this limitation. In combination with M2 Pro and M2 Max It can handle either 8K at 60Hz or 4K at 240Hz, so the smoothness of the displayed content on an external monitor with support for higher refresh rates will be significantly smoother on the new machines than what owners of the previous generation were used to, for which they will be grateful. Apple definitely deserves praise.
As for the fact that HDMI 2.1 has been here since 2017, that's it Apple so he moved.
In general, across the IT world, I would expect faster integration of new standards into devices. (Applies to all brands).
In 2017, there was only a "release"... the first devices began to appear much later.
The problem with games is ARM. DirectX 12 cannot be started on it. So games that I would like to play occasionally, such as Age of Empires 4 or Diablo 4 in a few months, won't run on it.
Five years ago, Intel had the Skylike architecture with the flagship i7-7920HQ, which has a Geekbench 5 score of 3800 points, which is like 2 years old iPhoneThis year's MacBook Pro 14 M2 MAX has a score of 14800 and with Rosetta 2 a score of about 12500 points. This is the performance of the latest i5-13600KF processor when it consumes 180 watts. After subtracting the performance from the Rosetta 2 translation, the performance is equal to the 12th generation i9-12900T. And all this in a laptop and with a performanceonem graphics card GeForce RTX 3060 13 Tflops.
That's very beautiful, but what can I do with it? The vast majority only go through the compiler and then have a new AppThe chipset has the performance of an average 5 year old laptop :D
We will see what the real tests will be like. Those that have been with the previous SoC Mx were unsatisfactory, or the comments about it probably caused laughter among gaming individuals.
That is, if the performance approaches at least the cards of the previous generation even in such excavations as Borderlands 3.
Of course, those who didn't have better Mac or EGP configurations in the past and used Intel must be blown away by the new SoC
I think there will be an HDMI version for gamers. Appthe slightest problem...