Apps and games that utilize the Metal API target specific functions of Apple Silicon GPUs, which get even better with significant improvements to parallel processes in M3 and A17 Pro. Here's how it ...

Note how the load and stores that initialize the threadgroup memory and copy it back to global memory need to be atomics for this example to work, even though every thread has its own dedicated memory ...

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After today's keynote event that saw the unveiling of macOS 13 Ventura, the newest version of the Mac operating system, Apple has seeded the first beta of the new software to developers for testing ...

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SPIR-V conversion to MSL fails compilation if a struct containing a Metal matrix is declared as a threadgroup local variable, because it requires a default constructor on all its members, and Metal ...

Two days ago, Raja Koduri teased Intel's next-generation Xe-HGP gaming GPU running a new and, at the time, unreleased 3DMark Mesh Shader feature test. There was no information provided about the GPU, ...

A little over three years ago, Intel lured AMD's former Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) boss Raja Koduri to come over and lead its own efforts in graphics, at which time Intel also announced it ...