That Macs are bad at gaming is something of a hilarious irony in today’s gaming world. Whereas the iPhone and iPad have taken a strong lead in mobile gaming, their desktop counterparts still lag behind. Apple has clearly shown a penchant for wanting to jump more into gaming with releases like Apple Arcade. It's become something of a running joke among Windows users that Macs are rubbish for gaming. From a technical point of view this is nonsense, as Macs and PCs - and even gaming consoles such as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 - all use very similar components.

I recently purchased the base model iMac Pro which includes Radeon Vega 56 GPU. I am running Windows 10 in Boot Camp with the latest updates and have installed the latest drivers from Apple, but the performance when trying to play games in Boot Camp is pretty poor. For example, when playing Overwatch, I can't even maintain 30 FPS regardless of the settings I choose. Reading other non-Apple forums, it seems others are running into similar issues. It seems the drivers just haven't been optimized yet. Anyone else experiencing the same?

Gaming On Mac

iMac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Why Are Macbooks Bad For Gaming

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