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    Metal is a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API created by Apple, debuting in iOS 8. Metal combines functions...
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  • Vulkan (redirect from Vulkan API)
    closely resembles how modern GPUs work. Vulkan is comparable to Apple's Metal API and Microsoft's Direct3D 12. In addition to its lower CPU usage, Vulkan...
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  • the Apple team contributed a Metal API backend for the ANGLE so Apple devices could run on their native graphics APIs. ANGLE is distributed under a BSD-license...
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  • Notes application, as well as adopting San Francisco as the system font. Metal API, an application enhancing software, had debuted in this operating system...
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    WebGPU (category 3D graphics APIs)
    C API that allows portably and efficiently utilizing a device's graphics processing unit (GPU). This is achieved with the underlying Vulkan, Metal, or...
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  • Kernel (image processing) DirectCompute CUDA OpenMP OpenCL SPIR-V SYCL Metal (API) GPGPU Vector processor RISC-V § Vector extension Digital signal processor...
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  • version 2.8 and Flutter 1.17.0 were released, adding support for the Metal API. On March 3, 2021, Google released Flutter 2 during an online Flutter...
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  • the Hedgehog Metal (API), a graphics API from Apple for iOS and macOS Metal (Wu Xing), a phase of the Chinese philosophy of Wu Xing Metals, an academic...
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    this limitation of SLI cards is broken with Nvidia's NVLink. Apple's Metal API got initial implementation in Blender 3.1 for Apple computers with M1...
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    technology is accessible across iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers via the Metal API. Apple reports up to a 4x performance increase over previous software-based...
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    OpenGL (category 3D graphics APIs)
    cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing...
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  • work on older models. For example, Apple notes that the newly available Metal API is available on "all Macs since 2012". These computers can run El Capitan...
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    processing unit, the eGPU, developed in association with Apple to leverage the Metal API for professional video and graphics (such as those used by DaVinci Resolve)...
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  • collaboration, and introduces a rebuilt video rendering system based on the Metal API. Additional features include a revised audio routing system and enhanced...
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  • solutions Metal Performance Shaders, a collection of highly optimized compute and graphics shaders designed to integrate into apps using Apple's Metal API. Mandarin...
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  • their previous work on PlayStation titles, to initially support the Apple Metal API, later expanding it to add support for other platforms as well. The game...
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  • and AMD GPUs on Intel-based macs. To do so, the port utilises the Apple Metal API. Baked Studio Deva Studios Guru Studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies...
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  • Protection. The Metal API, first introduced in iOS 8, was also included in this operating system for "all Macs since 2012". According to Apple, Metal accelerates...
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  • library can be used as a bridge, translating most of the Vulkan 1.0 API into the Metal API. Continuing the process started in macOS High Sierra (10.13), which...
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  • Quartz 2D (category MacOS APIs)
    Quartz 2D is the native two-dimensional graphics rendering API for macOS and iOS platforms, part of the Core Graphics framework. Quartz 2D is available...
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  • including 3D games through use of OpenGL, and more recently, Apple's own Metal API API. Virtualization technology and the Boot Camp dual-boot utility also...
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  • was used in Odyssey, but was significantly modified. Odyssey uses the Metal API on iOS, which the developers switched to for better performance and stability...
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  • was introduced in Mac OS X Tiger) is GPU acceleration for the Quartz 2D API. With QuartzGL enabled, all Quartz drawing commands are translated to OpenGL...
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    supports Bluetooth 5. It also contains a new custom GPU, which can use the Metal API. Used in the Apple Watch Series 5, Watch SE, and HomePod mini. It adds...
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  • Graphics API Reference at developer.apple.com Quartz in Tiger (from a review of Mac OS X 10.4 in Ars Technica) Introduction to OS X graphics APIs Cocoa Graphics...
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  • Vulkan API calls. Direct3D (a subset of DirectX) Glide a defunct 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive. Mantle developed by AMD. Mesa Metal developed...
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  • MoltenVK (category Vulkan (API))
    version of Vulkan SDK fixed some issues with the interconnectivity with Metal API. "Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms". Khronos Group Press...
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    Wine (software) (category Linux APIs)
    to the host OS, or in the case of macOS, by translating them into the Metal API by MoltenVK. XAudio As of February 2019[update], Wine 4.3 uses the FAudio...
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  • rendering API A library providing a minimal abstraction layer over a graphics processing unit's raw command lists, such as Vulkan, LibGCM, or Metal (API). The...
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  • Core Animation (category MacOS APIs)
    model Rendering QuickDraw Core OpenGL Quartz 2D Core Image Core Animation Core Video ColorSync QuickTime Metal (API) Compositing Quartz Compositor v t e...
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