Steam and 3DMark Team Up For Game-Changing Apple Silicon Native Support

Some people (including yours truly) may well be wondering if Apple will ever fully commit to gaming on Macs instead of just nibbling at the edges. There's definitely movement in that particular area, though, as Valve has just released a beta version of Steam that's native to Apple Silicon chips, and did UL with 3DMark.

Up until now, Steam on macOS worked fine, but it was an x86 binary that relied on Rosetta 2 emulation layer to function on Macs with M-series chips, as is the case with many contemporary games released for the platform. The new Steam beta changes this, with a fresh release that targets Apple Silicon chips natively and does away with Rosetta 2 entirely. There appear to be no UI or experiential changes at all, except for the fact that the new client is predictably faster and more responsive than the previous emulated version ...