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...

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...

11, OpenGL, Vulkan or Metal API calls. It is a portable version of OpenGL but with limitations of OpenGL ES standard. The API is mainly designed to bring...

C API that allows portably and efficiently utilizing a device's graphics processing unit (GPU). This is achieved with the underlying Vulkan, Metal, or...

the Hedgehog Metal (API), a graphics API from Apple for iOS and macOS Metal (wuxing), a phase of the Chinese philosophy of Wu Xing Metals, an academic...

Notes application, as well as adopting San Francisco as the system font. Metal API, an application enhancing software, had debuted in this operating system...

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...

Kernel (image processing) DirectCompute CUDA OpenMP OpenCL SPIR-V SYCL Metal (API) GPGPU Vector processor RISC-V § Vector extension Digital signal processor...

cross-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

solutions Metal Performance Shaders, a collection of highly optimized compute and graphics shaders designed to integrate into apps using Apple's Metal API. Mandarin...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

collaboration, and introduces a rebuilt video rendering system based on the Metal API. Additional features include a revised audio routing system and enhanced...

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...

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...

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...

partnered with new APIs to provide higher performance than existing OpenGL and Direct3D shader APIs could provide, beginning with Close to Metal, followed by...

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...

model Rendering QuickDraw Core OpenGL Quartz 2D Core Image Core Animation Core Video ColorSync QuickTime Metal (API) Compositing Quartz Compositor v t e...

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...

ColorSync is Apple Inc.'s color management API for the Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems. Apple developed the original 1.0 version of ColorSync...

version of Vulkan SDK fixed some issues with the interconnectivity with Metal API, while version 1.2.3 supported some additional extensions. In 2 May 2025...

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...