I have a Razer Blade Advaned early-2019 (i7-8750H w/ RTX 2080 MQ with 64GB and 4TB NVMe upgrades) that was about $3000 with the upgrades I put in it. I dual boot Pop!_OS for work and Windows 10 for DAWs and gaming (WSL2 is unusable for me, otherwise I wouldn't dual boot). There are numerous things about Linux I don't like that I won't get into, so I always consider getting a Mac because I know it would be flawless for work and a DAW. Gaming of course, not so much. Its a Mac.
When they announced they were shipping with the 5600M, and it was going to a significant gain over the 5500M, I bought a MacBook Pro with the i9, 32GB RAM, 2TB, and the Pro 5600M upgrades last week just to see how it handled gaming, knowing that Apple has a great return policy so if I didn't like it I could return it no questions asked for a full refund. $4499.
Got my work environment setup. Works great. Got my DAW environment setup. Works great. Bootcamp Windows 10. Install 3DMark and run some Firestrike 1080p tests because that is the one I'm most familiar with scoring-wise.
I know I'm going to take a hit in gaming performance going from a RTX 2080 MQ to a Pro 5600M with HBM2. That is a given. I'm willing to make that sacrifice if my work and DAW environments don't have the headaches that Windows and Linux have. My Razer hits a 17,500 on average for FireStrike score. The 5600M is consistently hitting right around 14,100, which does put it around a RTX 2060 MQ.
I'm totally fine with that. That is a compromise I can live with. Again, it isn't going to compete with the RTX 2080 MQ I'm used to, but it will still be a decent gaming experience, with the benefit of a better work and DAW environment.
Install the few games I play regularly GTA V, FFXIV, and PUBG.
Just awful and the thing sounds like it is going to explode. Frame rates that are only maybe 35% of what I'm used to. The actual performance in game I would put around at under a GTX 1050 Ti MQ like my wife's HP Spectre x360 has (i7-8705G), which I used to game on before giving it to her. Putting on the lowest settings doesn't even seem to help improve the FPS, especially in PUBG. Significant thermal throttling at play, so probably not completely the fault of the 5600M. Its just a Mac.
Returned it. I'll deal with the headaches and annoyances of Linux and Windows. But, if I can't game at all on it, I definitely can't justify spending $4499 on it. I'd get a MacBook Pro 13 or Air if all I cared about was work and DAW environments, and I'm not carrying around two laptops. Thus, I'll just stick with the Linux and Windows dual boot, and hope someday Microsoft actually gets WSL2 working properly so I can just use one OS.