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M1 max vs M2 max gaming performance? (self.macgaming)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by damipereira to c/macgaming

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Does anyone have benchmarks on how much better m2 is at gaming?

Specifically I'd like to see benchmarks for native games, and rosetta games like frostpunk, which seem to be cpu bound quite heavily.

I have found lots of individual benchmarks, but no direct comparison.

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[–] sparky 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Yeah I wouldn't expect the difference between 12 and 24 CPU cores or whatever it is would be significant here. But Apple also doesn't advertise the clock speeds and such anymore so it's hard to reason about the single-core performance difference, if any at all. Maybe a browse through Geekbench results could shed some light. Unfortunately I don't have an M2 Max machine around to test it, but I could give it a spin on my M1 Max MBP if that's helpful to you.

[–] damipereira 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's the one I have! And it only runs to around 30fps, with marked slow downs when the temperature drops, it's barely playable. I'm not going to upgrade to an m2 max macbook, but I was just hoping a possible m3 max might be good enough for the type of games I'm interested and that I would not need a gaming pc, so I wanted to see the improvement from m1 to m2.

[–] sparky 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Wow, I'm surprised it's that much of a difference. What resolution are you running at?

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