We were so impressed, we decided to make a second graph to express it. It absolutely obliterates a two and a half year old Intel MacBook Pro that was over three times its price all while keeping within ARM’s reach of a powerful desktop computer. There’s no denying it macOS M1 hardware kicks some serious ass. Not only is it much faster on an M1 MacBook Air that is much cheaper than the Intel MacBook Pro that costs three times its price, but it is also much faster and almost reaches the performance of a powerful gaming PC with Nvidia 3090 in a few benchmarks.

Even though they have a working build now, they have specified that Dolphin’s AArch64 JIT isn’t as mature as its x86-64 JIT, which means that there is potential for even better performance than the numbers you are about to see.ĭolphin Emulator was already fast enough through Rosetta, but the native build has shown some amazing results. The way M1 Macs handle memory meant that the developers had to just through some hoops to get the native build working. Dolphin Emulator is now available as a native app for M1 MacsĬonverting Dolphin Emulator from an Intel version to an M1 native version was not an easy task for the developers.