MTLDevice

The name of the device.

A Boolean value that indicates whether a device is configured as headless.

A Boolean value that indicates whether a device is low-power.

A Boolean value that determines whether or not a GPU is removable.

The registry ID value for the device.

The physical location of the GPU relative to the host computer.

A more detailed specifier for the GPU's location.

The highest theoretical rate of transfer between system RAM and dedicated GPU memory (VRAM), measured in bytes per second.

A Boolean that indicates whether the GPU shares all of its memory with the CPU.

The peer group, if any, that the GPU belongs to.

The number of GPUs in the peer group.

The unique identifier for a GPU in a peer group.

Determines whether the device object supports the feature set of a particular GPU family.

Determines whether a device supports a particular feature set.

An approximation of how much memory, in bytes, this device can use with good performance.

The current size, in bytes, of all resources allocated on this device for this process.

The maximum threadgroup memory available to a compute kernel, in bytes.

The maximum number of threads along each dimension of a threadgroup.

A Boolean that indicates whether a device supports programmable sample positions.

Retrieves the default sample positions for a specific sample count.

A Boolean value that indicates whether a device supports raster order groups.

A Boolean value that indicates whether a device supports a packed depth-and-stencil pixel format.

A Boolean value indicating whether the GPU supports barycentric coordinates.

Determines whether a given amplification count is supported by the device object.

Creates a command submission queue.

Creates a command submission queue with a fixed maximum number of uncompleted command buffers.

Creates a new event whose use is limited to the device object.

Creates a shareable event.

Re-creates a shareable event from a shareable event handle.

Creates a new fence.

Creates a library object containing the functions in the app’s default Metal library.

Creates a library object containing the functions stored in the default Metal library in the specified bundle.

Creates a library object containing the functions in a Metal library file at a specified path.

Creates a library object containing the functions in a Metal library file at a specified URL.

Creates a library object containing the functions stored in a binary data object created from a precompiled Metal library.

Creates a library object asynchronously by compiling the functions stored in the specified source string.

Creates a library object synchronously by compiling the functions stored in the specified source string.

Asynchronously creates a render pipeline state object.

Asynchronously creates a render pipeline state object and associated reflection information.

Synchronously creates a render pipeline state object.

Synchronously creates a render pipeline state object and associated reflection information.

Asynchronously creates a render pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, for a tile shader.

Synchronously creates a render pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, for a tile shader.

Asynchronously creates a compute pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, using a compute pipeline descriptor.

Asynchronously creates a new compute pipeline state object using a function object.

Asynchronously creates a new compute pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, using a function object.

Synchronously creates a compute pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, using a compute pipeline descriptor.

Synchronously creates a new compute pipeline state object using a function object.

Synchronously creates a new compute pipeline state object, and associated reflection information, using a function object.

The maximum size of a buffer, in bytes.

Allocates a new zero-filled buffer of a given length.

Allocates a new buffer of a given length and initializes its contents by copying existing data into it.

Creates a buffer by wrapping an existing contiguous memory allocation.

Determines whether a device supports a given texture sample count.

Calculates the minimum alignment required for creating a linear texture with a given pixel format.

Calculates the minimum alignment required when creating a texture buffer from a buffer.

The device objects's read-write texture support tier.

Creates a texture.

Creates a texture using an IOSurface to store the texture data.

Create a texture that can be shared across process boundaries.

Creates a texture referencing an existing shared texture.

Creates a sampler state object.

Determines the argument buffers tier supported by the device.

The maximum number of unique argument buffer samplers per app.

Creates an argument encoder for a specific array of arguments.

Creates an indirect command buffer.

Creates a heap.

Returns the size and alignment, in bytes, of a buffer sub-allocated from a heap.

Returns the size and alignment, in bytes, of a texture sub-allocated from a heap.

Creates a new object that contains depth and stencil test state.

The counter sets supported by the device object.

Creates a counter sample buffer.

Returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the device object supports the desired number of layers in a rasterization rate map.

Creates a rasterization rate map.

Samples the CPU and GPU timestamps.

The size of sparse tiles created by this device object, measured in bytes.

Returns the dimensions of a sparse tile for a specific texture.