Hello, I noticed a substantial decrease in performance compared to previous releases of tensorflow for M1 Macs. I previously installed the alpha release of tensorflow for M1 from GitHub, found here: https://github.com/apple/tensorflow_macos and was very impressed by the performance. I used the following script to benchmark my M1 Mac and other systems: https://gist.github.com/tampapath/662aca8cd0ef6790ade1bf3c23fe611a#file-fashin_mnist-py Running the alpha release from GitHub, my M1 Mac handsomely outperformed both google colab's random GPU offerings and an RTX 2070 windows computer. Recently, I went back to the GitHub repository, looking for new updates on tensorflow support for the M1 and was redirected here to the tensorflow-metal PluggableDevices installation guide: https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/ After installing the conda environment and running the same benchmark script, I realized my M1 systems's was running much slower. Additionally, the following error