How good is Apple's new m1 chip for gaming? The new chip is not starting to convert from x86 to ARM. This means that the tech giant company is beginning to cut its ties with Intel when it comes to laptop processors.
An Apple employee points to the Touch Bar on a new Apple MacBook Pro laptop during a product launch event on October 27, 2016 in Cupertino, California. Apple Inc. unveiled the latest iterations of its MacBook Pro line of laptops and TV app.
While it might seem a big update, most of the gamers are not interested in the latest chip. Why? Because an ARM or even the M1 will not power a gaming PC as of the moment. However, the new processor is still way more important than you think.
M1's arrival can force AMD and Intel to improve their x86 games just to compete with Apple's latest processor.
How M1 can change players' gaming experience
According to PC Gamer's latest report, most of the PC processors nowadays haven't changed their instructions-per-clock (IPC) or per-core and per-clock performance. The current and latest chips are only enhancing their features by adding extra cores.
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That's why Ryzen's latest 5000 series is widely comparable with Intel's five-year-old Skylake architecture, although they have a huge age gap. However, this tradition of tech giant chip manufacturers could change, thanks to Apple's M1 processor.
If this chip can prove that ARM can go toe to toe with x86 or even beat it for IPC performance, many companies will change their thinking that ARM is only for efficiency, and x86 is for serious gaming activity.
Apple currently claims that the ARM chip is really great for efficiency, which can be seen in Apple MacBook's double battery life, which is the same one used in the company's Intel-based Macbooks.
However, the tech giant company also claims that M1's transition to ARM will have faster CPU cores globally.
Apple M1 Chip vs Xeon Processor: Can M1 beat Intel Xeon?
Tech Radar reported that Apple's M1 beats Intel Xeon, claiming that the company's new processor generates more impressive benchmark results.
These benchmark performance scores suggest that the new M1 chips are going to be so impressive when it arrives. Affinity Photo 1.9.0 app's benchmark revealed that Apple's new processor outperforms Intel Xeon W chip, which has a 3.2 GHz 8-core.
They based the result in the 2017 iMac Pro across a number of metrics. Andy Somerfield, an Affinity's lead developer, said that he didn't believe the scores first.
"Apple M1 chip benchmark vs. 6-core 3.7ghz 2019 iMac with AMD 580X in [Affinity] Photo - if I hadn't measured the CPU number myself I wouldn't believe it," he added, as reported by Tech Radar.
With all these information, Apple's new M1 chips are really something to look forward to, whether you're a gamer or not.
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Written by Giuliano J. de Leon
