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Especially when considering this is Apple’s first iteration of its notebook silicon.

The 30 FPS score may not seem impressive, but it is for a thin and light notebook. When I ran the benchmark 1440 x 900 resolution, I got an average FPS of 30. First, I tried the benchmark at 1920 x 1200 resolution and yielded an average FPS of 20. I ran the game on 1920 x 12 x 900 on high settings for both runs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider/Rosetta 2: I used the built-in benchmark within Shadow of the Tomb Raider to test FPS scores on a couple of different resolutions. Apart from the application freezes, the M1 is performing well out of the gate. The application did freeze on several different occasions, taking several minutes of waiting or a forced quit to fix the issue each time it happened. I raised the resolution settings to 2048 x 1280, and it dropped the FPS to 50-60 FPS on average, but that was still a good gaming experience. At 1440 x 900 resolution, I was consistently getting in the 70-80 FPS range, and I also saw some FPS scores that peaked into the 100’s. I tested the game on 1440 x 9 x 1280 resolution on high settings. I have ordered a 16GB system, but it does not come in for a while.įor the gaming titles, I tested Fortnite, Shadow of The Tomb Raider, Dota 2, Sid Meier’s: Civilization VI, Empire of Sin, Total War: WARHAMMER II, Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Firewatch, and Subnautica.įortnite: While Fortnite is technically not an AAA title, it is undoubtedly one of the world’s most popular battle royale games.

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More RAM could increase FPS in certain games, so my results are not the new MacBook Pro ceiling with the new M1 processor. The MacBook Pro M1 comes with up to 16GB of RAM and 2TB of storage at the high end. I want to preface that my MacBook Pro 13″ was not the highest-end configuration. The system also came with a 13.3-inch built-in retina display at 2560 x 1600 resolution and 500GB of storage. It came with the latest macOS Big Sur, Apple M1 processor, and 8GB of RAM.

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I used my new Apple MacBook Pro 13″ notebook for the full duration of my testing.

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I will add that the Apple M1-optimized software screamed and was performant. My recent testing of new, unreleased M1-optimized versions of Office 365 (sans Teams and OneDrive) and Edge reduced power draw and improved compatibility a lot. This review is a follow-up to my first review using the new M1 MacBook as my primary productivity tool for nearly a week, where I had a mixed experience with some productivity software titles. Therefore, I wanted to see how playable AAA games were on the new M1-based Mac, given the giant M1 GPU and its UMA architecture that should speed up memory reads and writes between CPU and GPU. I am confident the company is talking more about iOS developers’ games, but it did demonstrate AAA games like Tomb Raider, which led me to believe that AAA games were a target. Gaming has not been much of a focus for the Mac operating system, but it has been a significant point of success for Apple on iOS. At Apple’s WWDC and Mac product launch, gaming (game/games/gaming) was cited 23 times, so I believe Apple intended to create a good gaming experience.

My expectations for AAA gaming on any 13″ notebook with integrated graphics are low for any IGP notebook brand.

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