Meet Metal Rendering and Compute
June 7, 2021

Discover how to optimize your graphics and compute pipelines for top-tier performance. Learn about the latest updates to Metal for high-end games, ray tracing, image processing, and machine learning, harness new developer tools and workflows, and find out how to take advantage of Apple silicon.
Optimize high-end games for Apple GPUs
Go behind the scenes to see how a high-end game used Xcode and Metal to identify bottlenecks, optimize shaders, improve memory bandwidth usage, and reduce frame times.

Optimize high-end games for Apple GPUs
Watch nowEnhance your app with Metal ray tracing
Explore the latest improvements in implementing ray tracing to achieve more detailed and photorealistic 3D scenes in your apps and games.

Enhance your app with Metal ray tracing
Watch nowExplore hybrid rendering with Metal ray tracing
Understand the tools and techniques to combine ray tracing with your rasterization engine and elevate the visuals in your app or game.

Explore hybrid rendering with Metal ray tracing
Watch nowExplore bindless rendering in Metal
Learn how bindless rendering enhances raytracing and other modern rendering techniques by making your entire scene and resources available to the GPU.

Explore bindless rendering in Metal
Watch nowOptimize for variable refresh rate displays
Learn how to take advantage of Adaptive Sync displays on macOS and explore best practices for achieving smooth screen updates on Apple platforms that support dynamic display timing.

Optimize for variable refresh rate displays
Watch nowDiscover compilation workflows in Metal
Get details about Metal compilation workflows that enable your apps to render stunning visuals while maintaining a flexible and extensible shader development pipeline.

Discover compilation workflows in Metal
Watch nowDiscover Metal debugging, profiling, and asset creation tools
Understand the powerful Metal tools in Xcode 13 which take the debugging, profiling and asset creation workflows for your apps to the next level.

Discover Metal debugging, profiling, and asset creation tools
Watch nowAccelerate machine learning with Metal Performance Shaders Graph
Discover how MPSGraph provides a powerful engine to accelerate linear algebra, machine learning, computer vision, and image processing, all with only a few lines of code.

Accelerate machine learning with Metal Performance Shaders Graph
Watch nowCreate image processing apps powered by Apple Silicon
Take advantage of Apple's unique tile based deferred renderer architecture in your image processing apps and learn how to attain maximum performance when migrating compute based apps from discrete GPUs to Apple Silicon.

Create image processing apps powered by Apple silicon
Watch nowExplore Core Image kernel improvements
Learn the steps and build rules to add custom Metal-based Core Image kernels into your app and understand the benefits of using Metal stitchable functions and dynamic library features.
