MacBook Neo Tested With Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring And 8 More Games

The newly released $599 MacBook Neo might be an iPhone chip slapped into a low-cost Mac chassis with passive cooling, but it's shockingly competent as long as you accept its limitations. YouTuber and PCGamingWiki founder Andrew Tsai rejects those limitations and put Apple's new entry-level laptop through its paces to see exactly what this fanless, A18-powered machine can handle. Spoiler alert: it's surprisingly capable, but you definitely need to temper your expectations.

The benchmark results are undeniably impressive for the hardware, though they're also exactly what we'd expect given the architecture. The A18 chip boasts incredibly fast single-threaded speeds, which allow it to handle games with remarkable aplomb. In many titles, though, it's limited by having only two performance cores.

The more significant bottleneck is really the fixed 8GB of unified memory. Because of this, pushing modern AAA titles like Resident Evil 9 Requiem ...