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Metal 2 Supported Macs
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I think they are the same that support first version of Metal, and here is the list for Metal supported Macs.
There are three tiers of GPUs that support Metal. Metal 2 is a continuation of Metal and simply adds features to the existing set of APIs. Some features require a certain family of GPUs. This gets much easier on the Mac however, where, if I remember correctly, there's only a single family. All Macs 2012 and up support this family for sure, and select others may also. This includes all functionality of Metal 2.
At first I thought so too but Metal 2 is heavy and has a lot of new stuff that old GPUs like the GT650m / GT750m (which support Metal 1) can't keep up with.
According to the WWDC sessions however, All features of Metal 2 seem to be supported on all Metal capable devices. I've not yet seen all the presentations, but so far there's none that talk of adding a new family to the Mac GPUs and no documentation to support that either.
What features of Metal 2 do you not think something like the GT 650M should be capable of performing? I will gladly look into the matter more for that particular GPU. I should be able to borrow a laptop with that GPU and run High Sierra on it, and perform some very quick tests (if I can easily understand and implement the APIs of the features you're thinking about
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According to the WWDC sessions however, All features of Metal 2 seem to be supported on all Metal capable devices. I've not yet seen all the presentations, but so far there's none that talk of adding a new family to the Mac GPUs and no documentation to support that either.
What features of Metal 2 do you not think something like the GT 650M should be capable of performing? I will gladly look into the matter more for that particular GPU. I should be able to borrow a laptop with that GPU and run High Sierra on it, and perform some very quick tests (if I can easily understand and implement the APIs of the features you're thinking about
Thanks so much for your offer.
I have in the house two 15-inchers from 2013 with those GPUs so I can do my own testing if needed.
The key word here is 'if needed', the question was more of a curiosity for me because I don't need to implement any APIs.
Thank you again !
Sure
. You're welcome. If you do end up making any discoveries one way or the other, let me know.Metal 2
Supported by the following Mac models:
- MacBook (Early 2015 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or newer)
- Mac mini (Late 2012 or newer)
- iMac (Late 2012 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013)
Obviously Apple over simplify the list as usual. My understanding is that METAL 2 support is about the GPU, but not the Mac model. e.g. My Mac is NOT on the list, and clearly has METAL support.
Well this what I found on apple page and it's about metal 2, not metal in general.
AFAIK, all GPU that support METAL automatically means has METAL 2 support.
Or your OS system info says your GPU is running METAL 2 instead of METAL?
Did anything happen with this?According to the WWDC sessions however, All features of Metal 2 seem to be supported on all Metal capable devices. I've not yet seen all the presentations, but so far there's none that talk of adding a new family to the Mac GPUs and no documentation to support that either.
What features of Metal 2 do you not think something like the GT 650M should be capable of performing? I will gladly look into the matter more for that particular GPU. I should be able to borrow a laptop with that GPU and run High Sierra on it, and perform some very quick tests (if I can easily understand and implement the APIs of the features you're thinking about
I have a MBP mid 2012 that should support metal 2 and Mojave. It doesn't.
I've looked all over and it seems this isn't just me. I have the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M w/ 1gb. Only 11 days till my computer is vintaged by Apple and it's unusable.