Like the Huawei MateBook 14s and HP Spectre x360. In everyday use and in benchmark tests, the M2-based MacBook Air is significantly faster than the sleek Windows PCs in the same price range we’ve most recently tested.

The short answer to that question is that it does. And since the M1 already wipes the floor with the vast majority of Intel-based computers, we’ve been looking forward to test-driving the first M2 model on the market to see if it lives up to expectations. And the performance should be 18 percent better compared to the M1 processor we already know. The new M2 generation is based on a 5nm architecture that offers up to 100GB/s of memory bandwidth, up to 24GB of integrated memory (up from 16GB) and up to 35 percent better graphics performance, Apple promises. It’s also the first computer we’re testing with Apple’s all-new M2 processor. Just like Apple’s new 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro, only a little smaller and not nearly as heavy.īut the updated design isn’t the only thing new about the 2022 MacBook Air. We wave goodbye to the wedge-shaped look and say hello to a sleek, lightweight laptop that’s flat as a pancake. This also won't help until apple updates it into a system update.For the first time in ages, Apple’s MacBook Air has a new design. The next iteration of openGL may help some, although DX11 is still a jump ahead in terms of performance from the same GPU. I found that installing windows on a partition for gaming works much best since you can use DirectX instead of openGL or equivalent but even then I wouldnt expect a PC using these same low end cards to drive anything above a 1080P resolution or on taxing (very good/ultra) graphical settings.

Installing the latest Nvidia drivers may help some:

The second part of the problem is that the drivers are sub par to the windows version (and often outdated) coupled with the fact that OpenGL currently has a large overhead for most games compared to DirectX on the same hardware. First there's the issue that current GPUs are simply not made to drive games at 2880X1800 (except titan black and other really expensive SLI solutions - and even then with reduced quality), so lowering your in game resolution to 1080P should allow you to play the game with better FPS.

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