However, that feature is the bane of computer hardware (something even Nvidia admits), so get ready to push your rig to the max in the pursuit of a good digital 'do. If you want your Witcher beasts extra fuzzy and Geralt's tessellated hair to flow dynamically in the wind, you'll want HairWorks enabled. Games like CS Go and Overwatch should run pretty well. The game's core recommended specs are hefty as is, and those don't even count for additional features such as 4K, HBAO+ and the most premium of premium features ever conceived: Nvidia HairWorks. Pretty much any game, but you might have to dial down settings in more intense AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2, SOTR or the Witcher 3. Should you choose to amp up The Witcher 3's settings, be ready to support those graphical ambitions with a powerful gaming rig. So we’re prepared to be positively surprised by the performance of the Apple Silicon MacBook Pro, though we doubt Intel feels the same.Thanks to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's bevy of graphics options, this game can run as easily as you want it to - albeit, the further you dial the game down, the uglier it gets(obviously). And we’ll have to see if Apple’s claims about the performance of its own custom chips stand up to real-world testing.īut ARM-based chipsets are increasingly powerful, and Apple has its own APIs and software to extract power and optimize programs for its MacBook Pro hardware.

This could come as a blow to creative professionals who like working in macOS but need a more powerful graphics setup for their work. And help ensure the new MacBook Pro can stand alone with no need for external performance help. That GPU is said to be some 5x faster than the last MacBook Pro with integrated Intel graphics Apple also claims the M1 has 2.8 times faster CPU performance over the last MacBook Pro.Īs such, having developers laser focussed on getting the most out of the new Apple Silicon chips could ensure the best performance is extracted from the M1. The more likely answer to this situation is Apple wants its developers to work on tapping into the power of the integrated GPU on the M1 SoC. There could be compatibility issues between how an eGPU would work with the new ARM-based M1 system-on-a-chip, but that’s just speculation on our part. What’s a little odd here is that the new Apple Silicon MacBook Pro still comes with Thunderbolt 3 ports that support the protocol and bandwidth eGPUs need to work.

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