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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by rvz »

moralestapia wrote: post #3

Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it. "no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense." This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.

Exactly. AI psychosis is real.

Never let an AI tell you that you cannot do something practical for your own self for research, discovery or for fun.

The only thing that is close to impractical is expecting your non-technical friends or others to follow you without any incentive or benefit.

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by falcor84 »

moralestapia wrote: post #3

Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it. "no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense." This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.

Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation.

Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by mywittyname »

> As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.

Or, more likely, it will tell you something it doesn't know.

Reminds me of yesterday, when I was arguing with ChatGPT that the 5070TI was an actual video card. It kept trying to correct me by saying I must have meant a 4070ti, since no such 5070ti card exists.

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by moralestapia »

falcor84 wrote: post #13
moralestapia wrote: post #3

Wow, phenomenal project and write-up, thanks for sharing it. "no - not in any practical sense today, and "maybe" only in a very deep, borderline-impractical research sense." This is why humans will always rule over crappy LLMs.

Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation. Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

And I see that you succeeded in not doing it.

Congrats! Each one got what they wanted :).

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by stock_toaster »

[deleted] wrote: post #12

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> running all performance-sensitive workloads in The Clown now

I really hope "The Clown" isn't just a typod "The Cloud".

If not, tell us more!

I'm inspired/tempted by this to rename my external "higher grunt offload" machine to "clowntown".

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by matthewfcarlson »

I have been bothering the VM team for years for VM GPU pass through. I worked on the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and it would have made way more sense if you could run a linux VM and pass through the GPU that goes inside the case!

Sadly, as you can tell, they have not taken me up on my requests. Awesome that other people got it working!

Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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Post by hypercube33 »

hparadiz wrote: post #5
frollogaston wrote: post #2

I'm guessing the x86 emu is cause Windows games are rarely built for ARM, right? Was kinda curious how an ARM VM would fare. Anyway awesome article.

Yes. Valve has done a ton of work here because it's required to be able to run x86 games on a Steam Frame which has an ARM cpu.

Steam deck runs a full x86-64 AMD APU. The work valve has done for that was to get Windows games to run seamlessly on Linux.

Hopefully in 2026 the Valve Index VR headset which is ARM (Qualcomm?) we get what you're talking about here - basically proton for Win32/64 to Linux ARM64.

Side note that Windows on ARM isn't bad just that its priced out of its league and cooling is awful for gaming on current laptops. The only issue I had was OpenGL needing some obscure GL on DirectX thing for Maya3D to get games to work.

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