> Clearly games are able to run well on RISC architectures

Theoretically that’s likely true. But is there any empirical evidence?

Even underclocked Intel desktop chips are massively faster.

Mobile gaming has run well on RISC for a long time and more recently Macs have shown gaming potential.

	▲	wqaatwt 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh sorry. Based on the tone and general fervor in your comment I somehow read it as RISC-V instead of simply RISC (which as other say seems like a mostly meaningless label these days). Yes, ARM is certainly competitive. But I don’t know how much is that down to Apple being good at making chips instead of the architecture itself. Qualcomm of course makes decent chips but it’s not like they are that much ahead of x86 on laptops. Even in Apple’s case, if you only care about raw CPU power instead of performance per watt M series is not that great compared to AMD/Intel.