[kergonath]

I would absolutely love an iPad version. Much more than the Switch version (which I am going to get anyway).

[Sakos]

It would certainly blow the Switch version out of the water performance-wise.

[mcphage]

It would... on the other hand, iPads also cost a lot more.

[kergonath]

It’s more a case of playing it on an iPad I already have. Otherwise yes, getting an iPad specifically for Factorio is some serious commitment.

[MBCook]

That sounds great to me. And the iPad has a better screen and still supports PS/Xbox/Switch controllers.

But there would have to be a touch only interface and that may be the killer.

[ls612]

Well if they port it to Apple Silicon macs making an iOS build shouldn’t be crazy difficult right? (Famous last words)

[duskwuff]

Still waiting on the Apple Silicon port. The Mac build of the game is still x86-only.

[hatware]

Might be the only thing that can utilize all the power of an M1 Pro!

[krallja]

The devs have talked about performance bottlenecks a lot - the real benefit of Factorio on the M1 would be the RAM interconnect, as most of the performance issues are related to RAM latency. Upgrading your PC from (e.g.) DDR3 to DDR4 gives you a whole lot more FPS per $ than upgrading your graphics card or CPU.

[wtallis]

Does Factorio benefit more from RAM latency or bandwidth? Apple's processors have unprecedented GPU-like memory bandwidth available to the CPU, but I don't recall hearing about the latency being anything special. (For latency, AMD's 3D-stacked cache might be the best solution out there.)

[selectodude]

Seems like ram latency is huge for factorio. I know the UPS skyrocketed on the 5800X3D with its 96mb of L3.

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/f2nab9/ram_speed_...

[kergonath]

Sounds like the M1 is Taylor-made for this, then! The memory bandwidth is insane and latency is great.