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The rumors about ARM Mac Pro say it'll have a big Apple GPU. If they were going to keep doing the discrete GPU thing, I'd expect the integrated GPU to be more b
by mastax 5y ago
The rumors about ARM Mac Pro say it'll have a big Apple GPU. If they were going to keep doing the discrete GPU thing, I'd expect the integrated GPU to be more barebones.
Though given that they just made a big deal about releasing an expandable Mac pro I'd be somewhat surprised if they dropped support for discrete GPUs. I know people use other types of add-in cards but it's a large portion. Maybe discrete Apple GPUs?
- dathinab 5y agoApple GPUs had been focused on the iOS APIs, I wouldn't be surprised if there is still a gap to fill until they can compare to this kind of GPU setups for the given workloads. Which can also be because of (software) vendor support not being as good yet. Also let's not forgot how bad graphic drivers have been on Mac as long as you don't limit yourself to the subset iOS likes you to use...
- wmf 5y agoApple GPUs use the Metal API while AMD GPUs for Macs use... the Metal API. Obviously there are driver-level differences, but pro apps are working on the Apple GPU so it can't be that bad.
- philistine 5y agoWhen you say graphics drivers, I think you meant to say OpenGL support. Drivers on the Mac are not a problem, when they exist.