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Sounds like a fun project, honestly. I wonder how much 2D-only “legacy” functionality even exists on the thing. I expect not much. Going for something like Vul
by boardwaalk 6y ago
Sounds like a fun project, honestly. I wonder how much 2D-only “legacy” functionality even exists on the thing. I expect not much. Going for something like Vulkan right off with a mind for it probably being built to accelerate Metal might be a viable angle.
Total spitballing though. Once they come out with the 16” MBP I may have fun poking at it.
- deaddodo 6y agoYou can read about the architecture in their docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/gpu_features/understanding_gpu_family_4 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/gpu_features... It's a fairly generic TBDR architecture based on it's slowly-replaced PowerVR heritage and it still has fixed function hardware in the core of the architecture.