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  • Metal 3 supports some surprising GPUs

    From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 15 22:27:50 2023
    So Apple's Metal API v3 supports Apple Silicon GPUs, but also a few AMD
    which is intriguing (because the Apple Silicon Mac Pro hasn't been shown
    yet, and that's the only one that might ever use such a thing).

    But Metal 3 also supports the Intel Iris HD 630, which is in.... the
    2018 Mac Mini intel series. Wtf. I can't work out why they would.

    Unless https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-sort/?sort=all-intel-macs&field[Video%20Card][0]=Intel%20UHD%20Graphics%20630
    is incomplete, and some other Mac with more obvious reasons to be
    supported is actually why.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Mon Jan 16 15:30:20 2023
    Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
    So Apple's Metal API v3 supports Apple Silicon GPUs, but also a few AMD
    which is intriguing (because the Apple Silicon Mac Pro hasn't been shown
    yet, and that's the only one that might ever use such a thing).

    But Metal 3 also supports the Intel Iris HD 630, which is in.... the
    2018 Mac Mini intel series. Wtf. I can't work out why they would.

    There isn't a lot of difference in the Intel iGPUs pre-Tiger Lake, so if you have to support one you might as well support them all. HD630 is a 'Gen
    9.5' of their iGPU, which covers all the Coffee Lake parts (8th/9th
    generation CPUs). The MBPs and MBAs which stopped being sold in 2020 had Coffee Lake CPUs, apart from the 2020 MBA (10th generation Ice Lake CPU /
    Gen 11 graphics).

    Apple never shipped anything with a Tiger Lake CPU so they don't need to
    worry about the new Intel Xe architecture (Gen 12 graphics) that came in
    then.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#Gen9

    Theo

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