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Metal is preferred over Vulkan by game developers, it says a lot about how Vulkan is the one that is half baked Apple was once a supporter of Vulkan, then they
by Shadonototra 5y ago
Metal is preferred over Vulkan by game developers, it says a lot about how Vulkan is the one that is half baked
Apple was once a supporter of Vulkan, then they abandoned the bloated ship and they made their own tech
Roblox: https://blog.roblox.com/2020/05/3-years-metal/ https://blog.roblox.com/2020/05/3-years-metal/
- Koiwai 5y agoAny citation to back these claims? I'd like to think this is mainly determined by platform, if you want Windows, you use DX, iOS/Mac - Metal, Android - OpenGL/Vulkan. You can use Vulkan on Windows or proton or moltenvk, but those are minorities.
- Shadonototra 5y ago> One other important aspect is Metal implementation is much simpler than a Vulkan one — more on that later — so in some sense I’d prefer a Metal -> Vulkan wrapper instead of a Vulkan -> Metal.