M3 MacBook Pro: 10 games tested with 8GB RAM
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
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Quick video demosntrating gaming performance on the MacBook Pro M3 with only 8GB of RAM, is it enough to play games?
Times:
00:00 Gaming on the M3 Mac with 8GB RAM?
01:12 Safety first
02:11 Lies of P
03:18 No Man's Sky
04:31 Isonzo
05:50 Baldur's Gate 3
07:30 PS3 emulation
08:39 Switch emulation (Zelda, Mario)
10:07 Resident Evil 2 remake
11:29 Cyberpunk 2077
12:11 Diablo IV
12:53 M3 Pro is better?
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When did RyuSAK get shut down? Is there no way to get it anymore?
Would have been more interesting with a direct side-by-side comparison to the 16GB version of this laptop.
I’d like to see the fully maxed out version of the M3 Max.
Someone did this already. The 8GB version gets owned
link?@@MenkoDany
8gb is huge can't wait to play solitaire on this bad boy
Don’t forget minesweeper, that would be epic on this bad boy with Ray Tracing 😂
Honestly the 8GB of ram is going to be a problem with this machine in a lot more than just games; especially if you plan on keeping it more than 1 year. I had a M1 Mac Mini with the 16GB ram upgrade and couldn't imagine not having the extra ram.
What kind of work did you do with the M1 Mac Mini?
Have a m1 macbook pro with 8gb ram. It is a serious limitation and recommend no one get 8gb ram. Just don't do it.
@@woofiooxx The video literally proves that games are held back by lack of RAM. The CPU performance is there, but not the memory...
@@woofiooxx Really? Try running virtual machines, caching isn't going to help. Video editors, like davinci resolve won't scrub smoothly if it has to use cache file.
@@arnobchowdhury9641 Less work, more hobby stuff. Virtual Machines, video capture OBS studio, Raspberry Pi stuff, gaming. I have since switched to a Mac Studio m1 ultra, won't be upgrading till M3 Mac Studio hits Apple Certified Refurbished. Save you a ton.
FINALLY someone does a gaming video with emu & popular games that NORMAL PEOPLE PLAY THANK YOU
Thank you for using RPCS3 during your demo’s it’s very important for benchmarks!
Thank You for being our main games guy Andrew! Best Regards and Best Wishes!
What is temperature of cpu, gpu and noise when you play this games?
It would have been really helpful to see important stats displayed on screen, such as lowest, average, highest FPS, macbook temps, and maybe a graph at the end of each game (or the entire video) comparing stats against each macbook.
Nice Video Sir. Question there are load noise while playing any games from CPU fans? And can test also in iMac same testing your do.
What I was wondering, is it possible to install and play with mods on games bought from the mac app store?
I’m interested on rather getting the iMac to avoid battery problems would it be the same performance as MacBook Pro for plying ?
Hi Andy. Any reason you don't test at 1280x800 resolution for lower-spec'd machines? It's a pixel-perfect option on the 13" Air and will push far fewer pixels. (Though I'm aware RE Village doesn't go lower than 1080p, or allow a 16 : 10 aspect ratio, which I was annoyed to learn after buying it.)
Afaik MacOS doesn't support integer scaling, in which case you're never getting pixel-perfect scaling even if it would theoretically fit the screen. 1920x1200 (or 1080p in 16:9 games) will still look better with any other kind of scaling, so you might as well use that if you've got the performance. Obviously you might still be better off using 1280x800 for more demanding games
Technically... All this games run with scaling (fsr etc), so no one run in native 1080p. 1080p mode in performance mode fsr - upscaled from native 960x540.
Thank you so much for your videos and your insight. Appreciate your videos, because of there value to me and most likely others like me.
Is there a tutorial out there that shows how to get a dual sense working properly with crossover and steam? I’ve already allowed for input monitoring and steam on crossover sees the controller and tells me it’ll apply it’s input translating, but no game sees the controller.
Is it possible to run these titles natively on a comparable spec'd and priced Windows laptop ? The comparison will be helpful in both Apple hardware and title purchases for the casual gamer.....all unplugged, of course.
Hello and congratulations for the very useful videos for those who want to play with the Mac. In this regard, I wanted to ask you if you think an MBP 14" M3 Pro (11/14 18GB) can run Diablo IV well with Crossover. Thank you.
Great showcase. Thanks for warning people about the perils of buying a Macbook with too little RAM.
at the moment should I consider a m2 pro or should I saved for m3 pro please?
Metalfx spatial is quite impressive. Seems better than FSR
the impressive thing about m series chip is graphical performance without GPU and make me wonder how much powerful can graphic cards get it future
When did RyuSAK get shut down? Is there no way to get it anymore?
so the conclusion is "not enough"
Whats up man great video. I was wondering if the Pro machine can run Modern Warfare Warzone III. I want to pick up a machine soon
Can you test gaming with the 24 gb ram model?
The 8GB are quite a bummer, really slowing down the machine by up to 5x depending on the task like opening more than 5 tabs in Chrome.
8GB in a Macbook Pro that cost $1600 is definitely a bummer. However, it is not nearly as bad as you make it sound like. In my Macbook Air M1 base model, I do web development. I have few docker containers running, 3-4 figma pages, clickup pages, chat gpt, facebook and other things open. VS code open, PG admin 4 open, slack open, notes open, the development server running. And I rarely see any slow down. Though, I have 4 gigs of memory in swap, but the machine is still very snappy.
@@arnobchowdhury9641 Probably cause all those applications are not very demanding on their own.
Hey guys, does anyone know how to display the fps metric while gaming on Mac?
I have to ask, where do you find these Mac ports for these games?
Steam. Rosetta, the translation layer from x86 to ARM, will try to convert older games. The games he showed should work, others may need to be looked into.
How are you getting re2r to run in crossover? Keeps failing after first cutscene on my m2 max and crossover forums online say it doesn’t run at all, same with re3r
Using CXPatcher with gstreamer fixes.
CXPatcher works very well with crossover. However, don't try to get support from CodeWeavers with a patched crossover; it muddies the water for them a lot and they can't help you with an unsupported version. This is why you won't read that RE2R and RE3R work on their forums. Those games do work very well with patched crossover, though.
Do we feel a difference with the "gaming mode" of MacOS Sonoma?
Quite a bit
Will you do M3 Max?
I am debating between a max or pro chip the preset $2000 and $3200 model
Great content; would you like to rise the bar a bit hah?, can you do a project zomboid test with large crowds of zombies? Lot of ppl would love to see how the new m3 performs :D
Which emulator was used for Zelda?
This is just for a person that has to use a MAC but; I want to play high end games vs I play high end games and need a dedicated system built for that which is anything other then MAC.
Could you please test Beam ng drive via Crossover on M3 pro or M3 max? Thank you
What about the super poor screen response time? The Macbook has around a 58ms screen time.
So with a mac m3 pro qith 18gb ram, will everything be ok in regards to baldurs gate 3 running fine?
What is that program you use in the right corner. I see everybody using, but I have no idea what it is or called.
Metal HUD
Where do you get those emulators?
The day I can play any game on mac on ultra settings is the day I stop using PCs (and I don't think we're too far off either).
I think it'll take some time, maybe 2030. M3 Max is about as fast as a 3070, so it's more than a generation behind (the Nvidia 4k series has been out for quite some time)
This is the easy bit, now we also need all the games to support OSX, which is why it'll take until 2030 if we're extremely lucky.
@@zoopa9988 Apple is not even close.
Macs are a joke.
@@mikeity2009 Depends on what you want to do. I prefer Windows personally.
@@mikeity2009 for the price, absolutely!! For longevity, Mac’s reign supreme. No debate.
Can you test NCAA FOOTBALL 14 through the RPCS3 emulator please??
Does anyone know why my hud metal doesn't work on crossover
bg3 is very ram intensive, if you want to know the chip performance you need more ram
Does anyone have any tips to bypass anti-cheat?
How does star wars the old Republic run on this?
Still would love to see a gaming comparison between:
• M3 Pro 18c / 36 GB
• M3 Max 30c / 36 GB
• M3 Max 40c / 64 GB
Blizzard games are currently having a severe memory leak in both PC and Mac games using the latest DirectX libraries. A patch is coming.
Request: Minecraft, Minecraft with Shaders, Minecraft with 8Gig, and so on.
how do you put the box telling you the stats at the top right corner?
Metal HUD.
Can i still with hope...maybe m3 max can run cyberpunk with every max settings? i relember you have some ram vs games comparison but i cant found...sad
I’d love to see this too. For some reason nobody has bothered to test demanding games on their reviews on the m3 max
@@Esokyotoo i think is too much, say for someone buy anything just for 1 or 2 tests but Andytizer is some of my heroes, the only few people who test games at apple silicon, mostly of yt boys just test 1 or 2 native games and say, apple its for work not games...
This is sick!
Would the base M1 pro 14 inch run Baldurs Gate 3 well at 1440p?
Yes runs much better
But it still looks bad on Mac. On PC same settings it is way more optimised
I’m using M1 Pro 16 gb and can’t imagine going back to 8gb
Is it really that much of a difference? How’s the M1 for gaming? I’m looking into learning how to play Civilization games on the Mac Pro but just don’t know how it would work..
@EvilSecondTwin just buy a gaming laptop if you want to game
what would it be like if you had 24gb ram?
How well does Red Dead Redemption 2 run on this?
Will you test the m3 max
Thanks, but it would be nice to see a Counter-Strike 2 test
Oh, resident evil 2 works now?
Thanks to many reviewers like Andrew, we understand the truth that the purpose of 8GB "pro" model is for pushing you to buy 16GB or above, just like 64GB iPhone strategy.
rip in pieces counter strike
why did not you check FarCry 5, i play it on my macbook air m2 16gb?
It works smooth? how many fps get you on your MBA M2 chip?
How about M3 Max?
GPTK 1.1 has been released.
16GB is a no brainer to me. Question is if I should go for M3 (I'd most preferably wait for M3 Air with 16GB somewhere in the next year) or just buy some lightly used/refurbished M1 Pro... 🤔 I want good battery, some basic gaming capabilities (I want to try Cyberpunk but I'm definitely not a gamer) and I'm not willing to spend 1800$ for a machine (cause in EU it's over 2200€ 🤦🏻♂). Any advice will be much appreciated 😇
If you are not gonna use the Ray Tracing features that were introduced in M3, you will be fine with M1 Pro. But, why would you want to play games on a Mac? I am not sure about gaming. If you want to play games and want a lightweight 14 inch very capable machine, please give Hp Pavilion Plus 14 (Ryzen 7 2023 model) a try. That machine is an absolute beast for the price. It has an option for an OLED panel as well. It can handle gaming very well at the level you are planning to do. Very good battery life as well, maybe not Mac level, but yet fairly ok.
If you absolutely need to have macOS, the M1 Pro is still a very good machine, if you can find a good price on used/refurbished. Otherwise a gaming laptop will be cheaper and better, for gaming. Or tbh a combo of a LCD steamdeck with any laptop for whatever purpose (not gaming) that you have. The steamdeck runs games better than the M3 in most instances, maybe leaving aside the native ports. I test games on my M2 Pro (base 16" model) but it's such a chore and a shoddy process, and this won't change much. At some point I got sick of installing crossover patches and reinstalling bottles and all that jazz.
Also if you just want portable gaming and maybe some productivity, a Rog Ally or Lenovo Go are good options, with a portable monitor. The Arzoopa (?) ones on Amazon do discounts all the time and their 144Hz one gets good reviews all the time.
Just get M1 Pro 16 gb and that’s it
@@RenatsMC1What about M2 with 16 GB?
m3 is not bad... But is it worth the update for 90% of us? I use a 14 inch m2 pro, so there doesn't seem to be any point in me updating
Definitely not. Fewer CPU and GPU cores will actually be slower. I've also got the same 14" M2 Pro, and even the M3 Pro is only a small upgrade.
90% of people don’t have M2 Pro.
What happened to RyuSAK???????
Hearing a 1500+ dollar machine be referred to as "low end hardware" so many times is triggering me.
Definitely if you are going to buy a Mac, you MUST buy it with 16gb of ram. The good thing is that they upgraded the base disk to 512, so you only need to upgrade one.
3:10 low end hardware seriously?
8GB will be even more critical when using 256GB SSD! Only one chip-ssd, so slower and then comes the swapping.
If you are a gamer this will most likely destroy the SSD in a relative short time...
Would be nice to not call the base model LOW END HARDWARE. It’s not supposed to be a gaming laptop and handles many people’s workloads just fine
It is low end, anything apple makes is a joke and is low end.
@@mikeity2009you are very stupid. If you hate Macs, why are you here? I fucking hate baseball, golf and even windows with all my heart, yet, you will NEVER see my name in any of their videos because I really hate them that much and I’m also not as stupid as you. Seriously, you are very stupid to spend time where you aren’t happy. Stupidity by choice. Self chosen stupidity.
GeForce now is insane on the Mac
I regret only getting 8GB ram on my Mac.
i’m truly not interested in seeing gaming on any computer with just 8GB RAM, the system on idle with no applications open requires about 5GB of RAM.
I honestly don’t think apple intends for anyone to buy the 8GB model or for it to be their standard of performance. I think it’s purely there so apple can say it starts at a lower price
you can skip making videos on 8GB RAM models and I would not miss them, ever
I have a base model M1 Mac Mini, which I am keeping as a Monterey-machine only. Newer macOS demands more memory.
I use whiskey to play these games.
This is shameful from Apple. Random memory on an iMac with a capacity of 8 GB of RAM. In this era, when cheap phones have a capacity of 8 GB, why is Apple so stingy with its customers?
he test 20years old games haha where is pacman :D
wow thank you very much (Y)
What is this PS3 emulator name?
RPCS3
It's free so go and give it a try
How is the battery life when gaming?
you should always be plugged in when gaming
@@Selim6472but Apple silicon MacBooks run just as well unplugged
Probably depends on the game and frame cap. So likely 3-5 hours
tears of the kingdom still ran better than on the switch lol
I...Play.. No man SKY...on battery and watch the battery go to 0 under 2 hours. 😂
I have no complaints
i've been wanting to get a macbook for a while now and i think this just sold me. Although I probably wouldn't get the 8gb ram one myself lol.
I remember when M1 was announced, I started thinking Mac might be a great gaming platform.... we're now at M3 and I would still definitely prefer to stick with my lowly 5800X+3070.
Is very week compare to my msi aplha with a rtx 4070 and the Price is 2500 for the apple and my is 2300 but I buyed at discount and only paid 1850 and guess what for less money i get with easy 120 fps in resident evil 2 1440p res. And best settings even in god of war with nvidia dlss i get about 60-80 fps on ultra which is the highest setting
I recommend building a pc for gaming is the smart and cheap choice but for someone who travels a loat a laptop is much easier to carry around
minimum RAM should be 16GB, period
8gb is criminal for gaming you need at least 24 like a 16+8 equivalent
Show us mw3 on 8gb of ram.
I'm watching this on my phone that has 16gb of ram.
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cyberpunk. 2077 will work better with 16 gigs of ram but the more the better as it wants 16 gigs for the ap is self and 8 gigs additional for video i have it on my PC which has 64 gigs of ram and 4 gig nvidia graphics and i get medium settings at 2k around 60 fps tops with the lowest fps at times of high 40s and iam runing a pc with 8 performace only cores over clocked at 3.8 out of the 4.5 i can reach so yup mac needs more power and alot more ram considering where the mac gets its video ram from
moral of the story if you decide to game never buy. 8gb of ram, most games today use massive amounts of ram just to operate, min you. will need is 16gb I would get 32gb if you have the money
if GPU was equipped with 12Core it would have been very competitive to gaming laptops🎉
@@garrusvakarian8709or at least 12GB and throw out the 4/8GB ram modules, so that 12/24GB can take the place of 8/16GB.
Lol no.. 🤣
Ryzen 6800h internal GPU 680m can do 80% of what M3 can do natively..
For 1800 USD you can get a good rtx4070 laptop that has over 3x the performance of the AMD iGPU.
It will slaughter the M3 🤣 .
🤣😂 no
@@garrusvakarian8709 It won't be competitive anyways due to price. I can get a "gaming laptop" with an RTX 4080 for 2100,- euros while the MacBook Pro costs 2030,- euros.
It's slightly more expensive and the gaming laptop also has just a 500GB NVME SSD but it comes with 16GB's of DDR5 memory and a 13 gen i7.
I’ve used a M2 Mac mini with 8gb of ram. It’s horrible. At 8gb even copying text with like 2 Programms open lags crazy
Additional problem with your M2 mini is it only has 1 chip NAND for your SSD.
That is half slower than the SSD on the M1 Mac Mini.
@@maynnemillares but he can have a 8 512 model
There is no problems with 8Gb, problem with an exceeding wear of SSD.
8gb is trash, 32gb is the standard.
Surprise, the M3 isn't a magic machine that uses RAM at half the rate of other PCs. If you do any real work or games you need a minimum of 16GB. Do any rendering or use After Effects 32GB is the sweet spot. That's how I configures my M1 Pro, well that and 1TB of storage. This is 2023, not 2013.
yes , although the impressive thing about m series chip is graphical performance without GPU and make me wonder how much powerful can graphic cards get it future
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This is perfect for the 8 people who still use macs and the 4 people who game with them!
RIP SSD chips! every time you use lots of swap, your SSD slowly dies. Get as much RAM as you can afford - and while you're at it, bigger SSD = longer life. I'd be curious to see framerate comparisons of 8GB vs. 24GB. I've got an M3 Max 36GB on order - longevity is key.