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Metal targets whatever GPU is in the system, not necessarily Intel. In most cases there’s a discrete in there by AMD or Nvidia.
by hellofunk 6y ago
Metal targets whatever GPU is in the system, not necessarily Intel. In most cases there’s a discrete in there by AMD or Nvidia.
- auggierose 6y agoWell, that's my point. As a Metal programmer, you don't have to distinguish (except of being aware of shared memory in integrated gpu). The talk made it sound like it is a totally different world between mobile / desktop, not to mention Intel GPUs. From a certain point of view, and for many algorithms, it isn't. Especially when the algorithm can be viewed as a functional program, as championed in the talk. In particular, most of the time there is an integrated one in there, because there are many more mobiles out there than desktops.