Mac Studio For Gaming: A Look At The GPU Inside Apple's Latest Mini PC
The Mac Studio is said to deliver incredible computing performance in a tiny, unassuming package. Despite its tame exterior, its internal specs alone sound powerful enough to outperform gaming rigs twice its size, but there are other factors to consider as well. If Apple merged the Mac Pro and mini, then cranked its capabilities up to eleven, the result would be the Mac Studio.
The Mac Studio was officially announced during the March 8 Apple event, with the company claiming that it can outpace most of its highest-end models by a long shot. The Mac Studio runs on what Apple deems as the “most powerful chip in a personal computer,” explaining that it's not only capable of dishing out top-notch performance, it's also able to do so while using less energy than most desktops. All of this translates to a very enticing picture when it comes to gaming, but can it actually best monstrous desktop PCs designed specifically for that purpose, even without a dedicated GPU?
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Performance-wise, the Mac Studio utilizes Apple's M1 Max Chip, which is a 10-core CPU with an integrated 24-core GPU and 400GB/s of max memory bandwidth, according to the official specs. Apple also gives buyers the option to choose the more powerful M1 Ultra chip, which basically doubles those figures to a 20-core CPU with massive 800GB/s memory bandwidth. For comparison, most high-end desktop PCs utilize an Intel Core i9 processor, which comes with 16 cores and maximum memory bandwidth of 76.8GB/s. These figures dictate the amount of processing power and operations working simultaneously, and the amount of data it can read at a given moment. In other words, higher figures generally translate to
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