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Metal is used within the OS for all of its rendering. So it's more a case of they built the API for themselves first and then made it available for developers.
by threeseed 6y ago
Metal is used within the OS for all of its rendering.
So it's more a case of they built the API for themselves first and then made it available for developers.
They also have power consumption and mobile performance as being their highest priorities which may not align with Vulkans.
- p1necone 6y agoI would be surprised if the graphics API layer had a particularly big impact on power usage. One of the stated goals of Vulkan is also to reduce CPU load when rendering.