GeForce Now Ultimate Turns Macs Into Great Gaming Machines

Cyberpunk 2077 is a visual feast on the Mac with GeForce Now Ultimate

If Macs have had a blackspot over the years, it's gaming. A limited choice of games and middling GPU performance have left most gamers looking elsewhere. Nvidia's GeForce Now Ultimate changes everything. Suddenly, the Mac became a brilliant gaming platform.

GeForce Now is Nvidia's cloud gaming service, one that allows you to play a huge library of Windows games on a Mac. Titles such as Cyberpunk 2077, A Plague Tale: Requiem and the Far Cry series are among the list of gorgeous-looking games on offer. Even previously off-limits titles such as Fortnite – a victim of Apple's legal battle with Epic Games – can be played on the Mac.

Forget everything you might think you know about cloud gaming: choppy performance, low-res graphics, poor latency. The new GeForce Now Ultimate tier is based on the RTX 4080 series graphics and performance is sensational (assuming your broadband is up to it). The games can take full advantage of the stunning Mac displays, with 4K frame rates of up to 120 frames per second – well beyond what most Mac screens are even capable of.

And because the bulk of the processing work is done on Nvidia's servers, there's no great demands on your Mac. That means you can enjoy games without the din of fan noise in the background, especially if you’re on a recent Mac with an M1 or M2 processor.

Here's how to turn your Mac into a great games machine.

To get the best gaming performance on a Mac, you’ll need the following:

The MacBook Pro becomes a great gaming machine

If you want to get the smoothest experience from GeForce Now Ulitmate on your Mac, here are a few tips: