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# MTLComputePassDescriptor

A description of how to dispatch execution of pass commands and GPU performance sampling.

```
class MTLComputePassDescriptor
```

## Topics

### Creating a compute pass descriptor

[`computePassDescriptor`](/documentation/Metal/MTLComputePassDescriptor/computePassDescriptor)

Creates a default compute pass descriptor.

### Configuring the dispatch mechanism

[`dispatchType`](/documentation/Metal/MTLComputePassDescriptor/dispatchType)

The strategy for dispatching any compute commands encoded in the compute pass.

### Specifying sample buffers for GPU counters

[`sampleBufferAttachments`](/documentation/Metal/MTLComputePassDescriptor/sampleBufferAttachments)

The sample buffers that the compute pass can access.


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