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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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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.

As sibling pointed out, the Steamdeck basically runs a Ryzen 3 7335U which is x86.

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

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> 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.

This is why i use grok expert mode. It agressivly goes out searching the web for info. Its so much better then relying on year old data.

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> 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.

It’s training data only goes up to late 2024 or early 2025 so that might be why, though it does have access to the internet.

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> 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.

Or, it will acknowledge that it made a mistake and continue to make the same mistake again.

I asked Claude to generate an HTML page about PowerShell 7. It gave me a page saying 7.4 was the latest LTS release. I corrected it with links showing 7.6 was released in March and asked it to regenerate with the latest information.

It generated basically the same page with the same claim that 7.4 was the latest release.

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

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This is pretty impressive. My impression was that eGPUs simply do not work with Apple Silicon.

(EDIT: Apple agrees with my impression. “To use an eGPU, a Mac with an Intel processor is required.” And, on top of that, the officially supported eGPUs were all AMD not NVIDIA. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363)

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

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> 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.

This is why i use grok expert mode. It agressivly goes out searching the web for info. Its so much better then relying on year old data.

Yes, I really like that about Grok. It had a few good qualities but it was too verbose so now it's mostly Claude.

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

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post #24

> 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.

It’s training data only goes up to late 2024 or early 2025 so that might be why, though it does have access to the internet.

Depending on your ChatGPT settings...

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

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why i use grok expert mode. It agressivly goes out searching the web for info. Its so much better then relying on year old data.

Yes, I really like that about Grok. It had a few good qualities but it was too verbose so now it's mostly Claude.

Solid compromise is Kagi's research assistant. Aggressively cites, unlike Claude. Concise, unlike Grok.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The Steam Deck is pure x86, it's not an ARM-based CPU. The Steam Frame might be what you're thinking of.

You're right. I was thinking of what I was reading about the Steam Frame
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