In short, gaming on Macs could see some notable growth in the years ahead.ĭeveloper and designer Thomas Schranz has put together a really helpful Google document with all of M1 Mac compatible games (h/t Will Strafach). not natively).Īgain, these entry M1 MacBooks aren’t going to be replacing full-on gaming rigs, but they will offer a decent gaming experience on the go or anywhere around your home at a moment’s notice. That’s with an integrated GPU and running through the Rosetta 2 translation (i.e. On its own 30+FPS isn’t impressive but when you consider The Verge’s Dieter Bohn saw 38 FPS on Shadow of the Tomb Raider with the base $999 MacBook Air, that’s big. We saw an early look at gaming on the new M1 MacBook Air when reviews landed earlier this week. Here’s a look at all M1 Mac compatible games and associated details. While gaming still isn’t necessarily a strong suit for macOS, the custom M1 SoC definitely brings improvements to offer a solid-enough experience for some titles, and through the lens of Apple’s entry-notebooks even an surprisingly good one.
The Apple Silicon M1 Macs offer some seriously impressive performance across a variety of workflows.
