How to Identify Apple silicon Metal device

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If I do check on Apple silicon this way :

Code Block  BOOL supportMacTextures = [_metalDevice supportsFamily:MTLGPUFamilyMac1];

I will get YES as result.

But as I know A12Z chipset does not support BC1..BC7 textures.

Or it does support them?

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Answer 1

You should not attempt to detect any specific GPU. Use the Metal device family API to determine what features are supported and code to those features.

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You should not attempt to detect any specific GPU. Use the Metal device family API to determine what features are supported and code to those features.

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Ok. Then probably it's a bug, because I'm getting that BC1..BC7 textures are supported, but they are actually not. Getting black textures comparably to what is on regular Mac.

P.S.: This forum is terrible... I can't edit my question and can't undo ticked answer...

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Answer 4

Also crash on generateMipmapsForTexture for texture with MTLPixelFormatRGBA32Float format.

I'm using this reference https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Feature-Set-Tables.pdf

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