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So in general, am I right in assuming that any advanced compute work would be a no-go on Apple Silicon? I am working on a 3D SDF renderer for games (fully comp

So in general, am I right in assuming that any advanced compute work would be a no-go on Apple Silicon? I am working on a 3D SDF renderer for games (fully compute driven), and my older PC is starting to croak. I was thinking of going Mac Studio 2, but if their GPU doesn't support memory barriers and such (even though I am not using them yet), I guess it's not worth the risk?

raphlinus 3y ago
It really depends on your workload. Prefix sum is pretty important, but you can also work around the missing barrier by doing extra dispatches. You'll want to do that if your goal is portable code. Metal also has some nice things, including real pointers (available in Vulkan 1.3 but not earlier versions, and not in HLSL).