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Mac gaming is almost there

But you will still kind of need an M-series Pro chip and lots of unified memory.

Mar 31, 2025
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows running on the MacBook Pro M2 at Low settings at around 30fps.

Since Apple’s introduction of the M-series chips, I’ve been keeping an eye on whether it was possible to use these powerful processors for gaming. And thanks to the release of Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit (GPTK, and not to be confused with ChatGPT) in 2023, it was pos…

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