Cars move around realistically, they go to and fro delivering goods here and there. But as my creations grew and grew and grew, I ran into one of the dumbest and most obnoxious problems from SimCity - poorly managed traffic. I wanted to push the game to its limits and see just what kind of weird concoctions I could get away with. I wanted to express myself, I wanted to craft and carve so many different types and kinds of places. My brain filled with all the different possibilities. In many ways Skylines picks up where SimCity left off, and it seems to tick off a checklist of features that fans of the series wanted to see. AvailabilityĬities: Skylines is available on PC, Mac and Linux for £22.99 on Steam. Its foundation appears strong - built as it is upon the now-dead legacy of the once-great SimCity - but the cracks are still there. I like Cities: Skylines, but the more I play, the more flawed it seems. My frustration mounts as I realise that the failure isn't my fault. In a few weeks, everyone is dead, my buildings either abandoned or burning, and I've got to admit failure as my budget spirals out of control. I build cemeteries and crematoria on every block, but it's not enough. My city of Buttingham begins to convulse with disease as its infrastructure fails to keep it running. As it is, I'd guess that Apple needs at least 20 GPU cores as whatever is in the M1 now just to match current 16' performance.Cities: Skylines is a competent city-builder that lacks a vision of its own - though it leaves space for its community to fill in the gaps.īodies are piling up everywhere. Either that or they need to bundle a lot more GPU cores together. It means Apple may still have to bundle an AMD GPU with the 16' if they want to claim faster graphics performance. I'd guess that if anything, this doesn't bode well for Apple Silicon in a 16' MacBook. Based on raw numbers, M1 should be faster than Tiger Lake GPU by at least 50 - 75%.īut then again, winning against Intel here is not really.

That sounds just about right.Īlthough Intel really improved their GPU performance significantly, Tiger Lake is still likely behind M1 by a good margin. By raw number, Apple can easily claim that the M1 has 6x faster graphics performance.

How much faster? That remains to be seen, but I'm not surprised if Apple's M1 is not up to par compared to the 16' MacBook.Īs a point of comparison, Tiger Lake's iGPU reaches about 2 teraflops, and the Intel HD 630 that was in previous generation MacBooks? 0.4 teraflops. whatever the 16' MacBook has is still faster as far as graphics goes. The 5300M is quoted at around 4 teraflops, for instance. And Radeon's Navi is in general faster than that by a good margin.

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