Metal
Metal provides the lowest-overhead access to the GPU, enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. With a streamlined API, precompiled shaders, and support for efficient multi-threading, Metal can take your game or app to the next level of performance and capability.
Documentation
- Metal Best Practices Guide
- Metal Programming Guide
- Metal Shading Language Guide
- Metal Framework Reference
- MetalKit Framework Reference
- Metal Performance Shaders Framework Reference
Videos
Learn about Metal with WWDC session videos.
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WWDC 2016
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WWDC 2015
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WWDC 2014
Sample Code
- Adopting Metal I
- Adopting Metal II
- MetalArrayTexture
- MetalBasic3D
- MetalBasicTessellation
- MetalDeferredLighting
- MetalGameOfLife
- MetalHeapsAndFences
- MetalImageFilters
- MetalImageProcessing
- MetalImageRecognition
- MetalShaderShowcase
- MetalTexturedQuad
- MetalUniformStreaming
- MetalVertexStreaming
- MetalVideoCapture
- MPSCNNHelloWorld
- MPSMatrixMultiplication
What’s New in Metal
Watch WWDC16 videos to learn about the latest Metal capabilities such as tessellation, fine-grained resource control, and deep learning acceleration.
Metal Feature Sets
Look up the feature availability, implementation limits, and pixel format capabilities of Metal feature sets.
Learn moreDeveloper Forums
Ask questions and discuss Metal with Apple engineers and other developers.
View forumGames on the App Store
Check out the latest collection of cutting-edge iOS games that take advantage of Metal.
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