M5 MacBook Air 13”: 12 games tested

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Crossover – Windows gaming on Mac tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1su-cC3s6U
Parallels – Windows games on Mac in a VM tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCuX9HA12Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3FbFggc_4

Timestamps:
00:00 MacBook Air M5 can GAME!
01:00 Cyberpunk 2077
01:31 Death Stranding
02:14 Baldur’s Gate 3
02:46 Assassin’s Creed Shadows
03:17 RE8
03:50 RE9
04:49 Monster Hunter Stories 3
05:28 Batman Arkham Knight
05:54 RDR2
06:30 GTA4
07:21 Switch emulation

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► Mac gaming setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R3FbFggc_4
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► Links:
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35 Comments

  1. Thanks for not turning on Frame Gen in the cyberpunk, tired of reviews that show off what the device is good at faking rather than what it's good at actually doing. And also THANK YOU for choosing the base model to give the most realistic expectations for the average person!

  2. I like the way apple's hardware is heading. It has made such power efficient chips, which many windows users overlook. Watt per watt M series beats many other hardwares.
    I think apple will hold the future for portable computing.

    Only downside is its restrictive ram, storage, OS environment and Price.

  3. My mbp 2019 16’
    I9 / 5600m 8gb / 32gb ram
    Gets a stable 75 fps in re8 and with framegen hits easely 120 with framegen same graphics

    So bad for this m5
    Same in cyberpunk 5600m 8gb beats m5 in any game

  4. You talked about it at the beginning but I would love to see a picture in picture of thermal camera view for the games after say around 30 mins of real gameplay as well if possible? Then maybe a verbal explanation of the throttling you encounter. Does that mean fps reduces over time?

  5. Try making a benchmark when its plugged in into the charger how the fps performance actually is

  6. So all the genres of game a like all survival games. I know valheim and nms has a metal port.

  7. I just play all games with Ultra settings on my M4 MacBook Air 15 with GFN and dont care 👀

  8. Hi bro im planing to buy mac mini m5 base (after release ) as it more power than mac air m5 base, so tell me will i able to play old titles like forza horizon 5, the witcher all parts, saint rows all parts, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, origin, odessy, black flag., cod old tiles like modern walfare remastered, advanced walfare, black ops 1,2,3, ghost., fry cry all parts, dishonoured, gird, final fantasy all parts, god of war ragnork, etc.
    So plz tell me will i able to play these all and which most most of games run seamlessly parallel desktop or crossover.

    Im buying mac mini m5 especially for gaming only becoz at 600 dollar the Maximum i can get on a window pc is 3050 and a older cpu due to high prices hike, so tell is it good decision or bad

  9. WHO says now Apple is Macs Arena for Gaming Bro the m5 has wifi7 and bloututh 6 and is so stronger than asnapdragon 8 Elite gen 5 and i9 ultra combined

  10. Man, I need your help. I only play eFootball (call me what you want but that's the only game I actually play) on Steam. Can yout test that? I really wanna know if I can play that on Macbook I wanna buy. Thanks!

  11. I tested on MacBook Air M1 Mario Odyssey and it’s sluggish. Mario Galaxy would go like frame by frame whereas Galaxy 2 almost freezes. I am thinking of upgrading to M4 mini base + 8G ram or M5 MacBook Air but reluctant as I am not sure if any of them is enough. Also shad4ps can’t seem to run at all on Air M1.

  12. I tested on MacBook Air M1 Mario Odyssey and it’s sluggish. Mario Galaxy would go like frame by frame whereas Galaxy 2 almost freezes. I am thinking of upgrading to M4 mini base + 8G ram or M5 MacBook Air but reluctant as I am not sure if any of them is enough. Also shad4ps can’t seem to run at all on Air M1.