I’m using this Mac Mini M1 since Day 1 and I’m super happy about 4K Video and Photo Editing, but how about gaming at World of Warcraft Shadowlands? With a power consumption around 15W is hard to believe that this small device can run anything, but instead….
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0:00 Intro
1:21 Ardenweald 1080p and 1440p
3:30 Oribos
6:16 The Maw
9:29 Epic Battleground: Wintergrasp
14:14 Multitasking Flex
15:18 Final thoughts and conclusion
The base systems:
Apple Mac mini M1 8GB 512GB SSD
External HDMI Avermedia 4K PCIe Capture Card
Acer Predator X27P 4K 144Hz HDR 1000
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When I have more time I want to do a full comparison vs AMD APUs with compatible games, any suggestion of macOS titles to try?
Engrish is clearly not your first language.
Will you do a similar test for M2 Mac Mini? This had a lot of views, hopefully you'll agree there's interest. I'm loving my M1 Macbook Pro 16", it's so good for 1440p WoW. Glad to see Intel, nvidia and AMD having more competition.
does it heat? make noise? crash?
the main advantage is silence
it does not fuck up your ears
i would like to see the difference between this and the 16GB version, and also reducing ground clutter, and view distance and environment detail to around 5-6, i know on a windows PC, ground clutter and environment details can really lower frame rate to.
So basically you need the M2 chip and better GPU, for 899$+ to play WoW full visual experience no thanks.
Will the 16 gb one run it better ?
So the only way to play WoW on a mac is to make it look like shit
thank you! that was very useful, I'm buying mac mini 😉
i tried it on my M1 mac but my mouse now randomly target switches in pvp BGs …. why would that be ? , changed my macros and totally simplified them … unplayable with that bug
pretty impressive for sure
My GPU is crapping out, currently underclocking it a bit and it seems to have stabilized. Checking PC and GPU prices is just shocking. I have been wanting an m1 mini since it released, now I am really contemplating it. Your FPS in that Wintergrasp BG while it did get down to 30 FPS you weren't fps lagging so that is respectable.
I need something mainly for photo and video editing. But occasionally, I want to play WoW or a new MMO.
What would be a matching PC build? Money or performance wise.
It costs about 750 euros, in my Country.
Which are the cons of Mac mini, compared to a similarly priced PC?
TY! This was helpful
The M1 chip is nice. The new one will be interesting to see in this game.
At least with the M1 we're seeing here, I feel apples gpu lacks allot of the tech Nvidia has to handle particle effects and the such better.
Seems this chip just gets crushed when any particle effect is taking place.
So basically running it at basic running levels I have an eight-year-old Ibai power running an I seven chord and a 1060 CPU and I push more graphics than that and I have no problems so what’s the problem with Mac
So now I know who’s been buying up all the CPUs and hoarding them thank you because you I can barely run pong on my computer
the only problem in wow is the size gb for my 256gb macbook air m1
You dont need more than 60FPS to play a game like WOW anyway it s not Call of Duty.
Apple Silicon, 16mb RAM and 512HD on a macmini. FPS between 4 and 14. Something changed lately and the FPS went straight down.
This is how you actually do test wow performance. Thanks for this video man 🙂 This will be the same performance on M1 MacBook pro for wow right?
Insane quality, can't believe how good that runs at that resolution. Puts my 980ti to shame 🙁
Tnx for video, but what about temperatures and ssd ( m1 problem)?
Wow! I have been thinking about getting one of these, but don’t know if I should wait for the new chip to come out. What are your thoughts on waiting for the updated chip?
Really enjoy seeing this type of content for the M1 mac mini, I see a lot of potential in these chips going forward. With the rumored M1X doubling performance cores and GPU cores it would be an entry level gaming PC without any trouble.
It's amazing really, that proper tech advance rather than 300W overbloated desktop CPUs that also need a factory next to it to power and cool it.
So much interesting content lately, keep it up!
So you are telling me that you can not max out WoW on the M1!? I thought it is superior in every way shape or form.
I would jump ship to Macs if only Overwatch was on it. 😕
what do you think about the 8gb ram? Idk if that's enough but it seems like you made it work pretty well. Thing is, apple charge more money for a single 8gb upgrade than a 32gb binned B-die kit. It's absolutely ridiculous, borderline criminal. They really shouldn't charge more than ~50$ for 8gb of ram and that's already pushing it.
Nice presentation as always:)
One question I see you don't test with anti aliasing on. You don't play with that option on? I was thinking it makes wow look better.
>0:44
>completlye fanless
The Apple M1 Mini has a fan build in.
It also can use 20-24 Watts.
Thanks, it was interesting
I sold my 3080 to get the big money, and now, playing WoW on a UHD630 is god's wrath upon me
I got a base MacMini (8gig ram) back in January. It's absolutely silent and has been promoted to my main machine. It replaced my Sager/Clevo laptop with an i7-8086 (undervolted and turbo disabled so fixed 4ghz), 32gig ram, GTX1080 mobile. The Sager was running the CPU and the GPU at around 80C with fans about 80% all the time and was SO LOUD and it would heat the room!
My only regret with the Mini is I should have gotten the 16gig model, as running WoW and OBS streaming to Twitch while functional was a bit constrained. 🙂
I run my Mini with my 1440p 144hz LG 650F monitor. On this display I had to disable free sync, which the Mac doesn't support, and in doing so I was able to set the display in System Preferences from 100hz to 144hz over HDMI, then set WoW to use Vsync. Its perfectly fine for doing Nathria with Discord (which is still Intel binary) just fine.
My WoW settings I set to graphics 5, Vsync enabled, General (High, Dynamic, Enabled), Environment all 5's, and Effects (Fair, Fair, Low, Fair, Good, Good, Good. I'm going to try raid tomorrow with shadow and liquid set to low instead of fair and see how it goes.
The Sager now lives in the basement, and I use a remote control software for gaming called Parsec, so I can play SWTOR on it, since that game doesn't run on Mac. Well it does, in a Windows 10 for ARM VM, then installed in the VM, but that's a hassle to run. :-).
Thanks Sir! Love the content!
cool video but will never ever buy apple
so we can create two different settings setup in the setting menu , one for raid & BGs and the basic one .. i think the setting system can switch manually .. is this Mac with 8g or 7g GPU ? i remember there is two chips to order ?
apple m2: 5x more powerful gpu and 3x more ppowerful cpu
crazy how theyre putting the same m1 inside an ipad. Apple'll destroy the competition for tablets for probably 3 years.
The M1 is a really impressive chip. It's caused even some people in the PC space to say that arm will be taking over x86 and that it's far superior missing the most important part that the M1 isn't just good because of ARM but more importantly because of Apple's engineers who designed it and built it from the ground up to work with their ecosystem.
Intresting, but is a mac
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Gonna get one of those m1 laptops eventually arm just makes so much sense for mobile