Why does my Mac book air game better than MacBook Pro!?

[Bill carscon]

I have a 2017 MacBook Air (see specs below). I am able to play Company of Hero’s 2 on it for an hour with it only getting slightly warm.
I just got a 2019 MacBook Pro (see specs below) and can only game for about 4 min before its gets really hot and the fan starts spinning.
Is there any way to adjust this so I can game casually on it? Why does the air game better??

 

[casperes1996]

I'm very confident the Air doesn't do it better. The MacBook Pro drives a lot more pixels on that display and unless you've manually set all settings identically in-game, the Pro will default to a higher resolution and higher settings.
The Pro will run it at a higher frame rate and draw more power to do so It runs it better at a cost of heat and noise, but faster and prettier.
An Air has a smaller fan and cares less about performance and more about staying cool and quiet.

You can reduce settings, enable a frame rate limiter and disable turbo boost to try and reduce the heat on the Pro

 

[maerz001]

Is „the fans start spinning“ a sign of bad gaming to you? Thats what a fan is made for

provide game settings and fps

 

[Bill carscon]

I'm very confident the Air doesn't do it better. The MacBook Pro drives a lot more pixels on that display and unless you've manually set all settings identically in-game, the Pro will default to a higher resolution and higher settings.
The Pro will run it at a higher frame rate and draw more power to do so It runs it better at a cost of heat and noise, but faster and prettier.
An Air has a smaller fan and cares less about performance and more about staying cool and quiet.

You can reduce settings, enable a frame rate limiter and disable turbo boost to try and reduce the heat on the Pro

Thank y Lou for the input. I followed your direction and turned off TueboBoost. No issues with overheating anymore. Thanks!