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I can’t seem to find it but I believe there was a Otoy forums post explaining how Octane supports AMD (and Apple GPUs) via Metal. So Octane runs under MacOS wit
by Pulcinella 5y ago
I can’t seem to find it but I believe there was a Otoy forums post explaining how Octane supports AMD (and Apple GPUs) via Metal. So Octane runs under MacOS with an AMD GPU but not Windows on that same Mac. They said that they are waiting for AMD’s Vulkan support to improve.
Edit: post is here:
https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75411 https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75411
Edit 2: Also interesting is this part:
“I must thank the great folks at Apple who helped us with the hardest parts, some of whom we have been working with for the better part of a decade on this. There is basically no way Octane has any future on Apple's hardware going forward without us doing this work, and we needed their help to make it happen this year.”
So it sounds like if Apple really wants you on their platform, they will provide significant help. Given the close relationship between Pixar and Apple, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Pixar support Metal in some capacity.