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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 month ago (14 children)

is linux already better for gaming on macs than macos?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No Vulkan and just WineD3D on OpenGL makes it hard to consider good. Might be pretty good after they find a way to run Vulkan on it, which might be tricky given how the hardware was explicitly designed to run just the proprietary Metal API.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A vulkan driver already exists and has made progress, it just needs some more time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard something about Apple Silicon GPUs being tile-based and not immediate mode, which means the Vulkan API is different compared to regular PCs. How has this been addressed in the Vulkan driver?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The blog has multiple progress posts https://asahilinux.org/blog/

I’ll admit im not an expert but shes not brought up tiling at all as a problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, in a Reddit comment, Hector Martin himself said that the memory bandwidth on the Apple SIlicon GPU is so big that any potential performance problems due to TBDR vs IMR are basically insignificant.

...which is a funny fact because I had another Reddit user swear up and down that TBDR was a big problem and that's why Apple decided not to support Vulkan and instead is forcing everyone to go Metal.

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