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Metal Support

Open donhuff opened this issue 9 years ago • 1 comments

Scene Kit now renders via Metal. What are pros/cons of Metal vs OpenGL?

Thanks,

Don

donhuff avatar Sep 10 '15 03:09 donhuff

Short answer: Metal is faster, OpenGL is more portable.

Pretty sure they both use GLSL for their shading language, though, so from a SceneKit perspective, you don’t care.

On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:44 PM, Don Huff [email protected] wrote:

Scene Kit now renders via Metal. What are pros/cons of Metal vs OpenGL?

Thanks,

Don

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drwave avatar Sep 10 '15 05:09 drwave