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It took the success of the iPhone and thus iOS and mobile gaming for them to realise that they now had an opening into a market that was previously heavily dominated by Microsoft and DirectX, even so brutally that macs still are thought of as not good for gaming. I feel like it didn’t gain much traction on macOS until the hole shift to ARM about two years ago now, which is factually totally unrelated.īefore, Apple in my opinion didn’t care about game development and 3D. Metal was first introduced with iOS 8 in 2014, but nobody really cared except for the folks in iOS game development. i dont think that they treated this facet of computer technology peripherally, yes it brings issues but to be frank not due to its technological aspect much rather due to the developers having to play ball integrating it. Metal has been around for quite a while now.

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But then again, damn these iPhones sell!įurthermore, most 3D softwares still use OpenGL in their display pipeline, which Apple depreciated a few years ago now in favour of their Metal framework and that brought a whole lot of issues and nay-sayers (even though there’s DirectX on Windows and NVIDIA proprietary everything). It’s only in the last few years that Apple seems to have realized that 3D is even a thing, probably because of iOS and iPadOS game development, something that they weren’t really ever interested in on macOS.

It’s a far more niche thing to do stuff in 3D with a much steeper learning curve than for instance casual Lightroom/Photoshop editing or cutting family videos in iMovie, which effectively means that there are far less people that you can sell your wares to. When it comes to 3D, things are wildly different. Intel and AMD chips have similar features too, but often to a lesser degree, or only in their upper tier. They have a whole panoply of hardware video encoders and decoders in the new M1 chips (hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW). Yes, but the film industry and YouTube influencer crowd mean big business for Apple, and they always make sure that video and photo are amongst the things that works best.

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The m1 mac mini handles high resolution video far beyond to what mine can do, so why not also handling a few meshes better than before So having all that information it makes me believe the mac mini could be actually plenty in these regards if i dont want to make real time raytracing matrix style. The m1 mac mini handles high resolution video far beyond to what mine can do, so why not also handling a few meshes better than before, i now have a 2 gb video card, that is even considering the transfer rate might have been/still is with faster video memory if that is true at all still quite a difference. it is claimed that RAM now simply has less relevancy, specifically since the data ping pong became so tightly and readily integrated. i am not a computer scientist so what i say has to be taken with a grain of salt. Well the truth is a bit more complex than that and different to what we are used to. Yes, but as I pointed out above, you probably have to split that in half, which in case of the 16GB configuration, would mean 8GB for the CPU - which isn’t great for any CG work, even 2D - and 8GB for the GPU, which also is only mediocre at best.

Rhino on m1 mac