I have a 2011 15" MBP with a Intel 3000 and a ATI 6750m. Will my computer be able to take advantage of Metal?
What Graphics Cards support Metal?
Nope. You barely missed the cut.
- Nvidia – GeForce gtx 4xx and newer
- Intel – HD4000 and newer (ivy bridge and newer)
- AMD – HD7000 and newer
Where do you have this info from?
Only HD7000 for Radeon ? That's quite restrictive...
Do you know if there will be CPU devices available, just like in OpenCL ?
And multi-devices (for MacPro) ?
Don't know about CPU devices for Metal but the documentation metions a set of API calls to retrieve Metal capable devices.
- MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice()
- MTLCopyAllDevices()
According to the header file, MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice will return the GPU associated with the screen for multi-gpu system. MTLCopyAllDevices gives you all the capable devices which you can then pick based on what features you want. On my Mac Pro it returns a device for each GPU.
bugger. i really thought that metal would be something good for my mac. is there a way to force it on older hardware