The most concrete information we have right now is a comparison to AMD’s 5600M. With four times as many cores, plus 64GB of unified memory, you could probably push the frame rate and settings much higher. With eight cores on the M1 MacBook Pro, we were able to hit above 60 frames per second (fps) in Fortnite at Medium settings.

Unsurprisingly, Apple didn’t talk about gaming, but we still have some reference points for what 32 GPU cores could offer. But when Apple announced the M1 Max, I wanted to know how I could put four times as many GPU cores to work. It’s a much more powerful chip than the M1 overall, sporting a balance of performant and efficient cores that leans heavier on the performant side of things. It was never designed that way, and a lacking library of Mac titles means that most games won’t be able to take advantage of the extra horsepower. That doesn’t mean the MacBook Pro is a gaming laptop, though. With a much higher core count, the M1 Max MacBook Pro should offer a big boost to gaming performance compared to the M1.

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