Basically all AAA games will run relatively smoothly (30-60fps) with low-midrange dedicated gpus which is effectively what the M1 performs like on paper (I think it's in the ballpark of the NVidia 1050/1050ti/1650).

You just have to lower the settings and resolution to get that smooth performance - think base model last gen console/nintendo switch levels of visual fidelity rather than up to date gaming pc/current gen console levels of visual fidelity.

It's kinda fun squeezing performance out of woefully underpowered hardware - LowSpecGamer on youtube is a channel dedicated to this kind of stuff.

>Basically all AAA games will run relatively smoothly

I think the parent's point is "what AAA games would run on the M1, even if they finish GPU support, given that we're talking about ARM Linux?"

Actually Apple itself already released Rosetta for Linux VMs. I hope it might also be usable with Asahi to run Steam.

Box64 actually comes quite close to Rosetta in terms of translation speed and apparently that's with optimizations which have yet to be implemented[0]. Would make sense to just use that instead.

[0] https://box86.org/2022/03/box86-box64-vs-qemu-vs-fex-vs-rose...

With the upcoming updates to Metal, in principle quite a few.