In our opinion, this is one of the best action-adventure games available on macOS. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is often used for M1 benchmarks, and that’s because it’s a beautiful game with great graphics, and it’s also well optimized for macOS. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the latest Tomb Raider game from Square Enix and was ported to MacOS by Feral Interactive. When running the game at 900p resolution, the M1 Pro can run the game at 99 FPS. On Medium settings and 1200p resolution, our 14-inch M1 Pro ran the game at 65 FPS. The Warhammer entries add to that with Orcs, dragons, and magic spells being cast for one of the more demanding games on macOS.īut how did the M1 Pro MacBook Pro do? Total War Warhammer 2 doesn’t have a native M1 version yet, which means this is the Intel version running through Rosetta 2. Total War games are known for the scale of their battles, with hundreds of soldiers on a single battlefield, each individually animated. ![]() Total War: Warhammer 2, is arguably the most popular Total War available on Mac. ![]() Every one of these games has a handy in-game benchmark, which allowed us to precisely test performance levels. We benchmarked the following games: Total War: Warhammer 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and F1 2017. ![]() M1 Pro MacBook Pro: Is it good for gaming?Īccording to our benchmarks, M1 Pro MacBook Pros are more than capable of running modern games, provided settings and resolutions are kept at medium levels. More M1 gaming? Visit our M1 Supported Games list for 100+ Mac games we have tested and confirmed as M1-compatible. What does “native” mean? Unlike games that require Rosetta 2 (a translation process) to run on Apple Silicon, native games are coded to run on M1 Macs and will always offer the best possible performance. Native M1 games will always run better than non-native games. this is especially true for demanding games that have not been optimized for Apple Silicon processors. The card measures 241 mm in length, 111 mm in width, and features a single-slot cooling solution.However, some games are still too demanding for a MacBook, including a 14-inch MacBook Pro. FireStream 9350 is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 1x DisplayPort 1.1. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 700 MHz, memory is running at 1000 MHz (4 Gbps effective).īeing a single-slot card, the AMD FireStream 9350 draws power from 1x 6-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 150 W maximum. AMD has paired 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory with the FireStream 9350, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. It features 1440 shading units, 72 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. ![]() Unlike the fully unlocked Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition, which uses the same GPU but has all 1600 shaders enabled, AMD has disabled some shading units on the FireStream 9350 to reach the product's target shader count. The Cypress graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 334 mm² and 2,154 million transistors. Built on the 40 nm process, and based on the Cypress graphics processor, in its Cypress PRO GL variant, the card supports DirectX 11.2. The FireStream 9350 was a professional graphics card by AMD, launched on June 1st, 2010.
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