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> By the time AMD donated their Mantle code to Khronos to serve as the basis for Vulkan, Apple had already shipped Metal. Metal v1 was so woefully incomplete,
by vetinari 7y ago
> By the time AMD donated their Mantle code to Khronos to serve as the basis for Vulkan, Apple had already shipped Metal.
Metal v1 was so woefully incomplete, AMD was in no position to ship something similarly limited. Vulkan 1.0 is functionally similar to Metal v2, which shipped several months after Vulkan 1.0.