Tuesday, July 7th 2020
Apple to Develop the Metal Family of GPUs, Dump AMD Radeon
In the next big step toward complete silicon independence, Apple is planning to dump AMD as a supplier of discrete GPUs in the near future, closely following its decision to dump Intel and the x86 machine architecture in favor of its own SoCs based on the Arm machine architecture. The company is developing its own line of discrete GPUs under the "Metal GPU Family," a name borrowed from its own Metal graphics API.
This explosive bit of information comes from a WWDC 2020 presentation slide posted by Longhorn (@never_released) on Twitter. The slide suggests that along with the processor, Apple is making a clean break with its graphics hardware. The SoCs powering client-segment Macs, such as future iMacs or MacBooks, could feature iGPUs based on this graphics architecture, while larger platforms such as MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, and iMac Pros of the future could feature Apple's own discrete GPUs.
Source:
Longhorn (Twitter)
This explosive bit of information comes from a WWDC 2020 presentation slide posted by Longhorn (@never_released) on Twitter. The slide suggests that along with the processor, Apple is making a clean break with its graphics hardware. The SoCs powering client-segment Macs, such as future iMacs or MacBooks, could feature iGPUs based on this graphics architecture, while larger platforms such as MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, and iMac Pros of the future could feature Apple's own discrete GPUs.
67 Comments on Apple to Develop the Metal Family of GPUs, Dump AMD Radeon
Yes, it’s fascinating to see where Apple will go next, and how that will move the market. And it does, because Apple is one of the dominant players in the tech world, and they capture an audience better than their peers. You’ll find many of Apple’s customers don’t immediately rush out to buy the newest hardware. My wife has an iPhone, and she could care less what Apple does or announces, and when her iPhone dies, she’ll want another because it’s familiar. And it won’t even have to be the most expensive or newest one either. Sure, Apple has their crazy, passionate fans, but that’s almost any company. You’ll also find many of those same passionate Apple customers bashing Apple when they feel Apple got it wrong. They certainly don’t give Apple a pass and fork money over. Look no further than the butterfly keyboard. Apple said it was the best new thing, the customers said otherwise, and now that keyboard is dead.
If you want the latest tech, buy it — no shade.
Might suck for AMD, but business is business.
More walled garden, every single gaming possibility on this Mac OS is dead now, Also big middlefinger to Macintosh users as well their new OS is like same clone of Win10 which incorporates that crappy mobile UX, a glorified iOS. Although most of their userbase doesn't give a shit about any of it, except to rejoice that their Macbooks will have A series processors so they can brag day and night, I cannot wait to see now Anandtech SPEC score BS will dial all the way to 11 with this news.
People who support such nasty business practices are to blame, they buiild their machiens with full BGA solder and no choice to user, and even add custom I/O chips to further block in the same of blackbox security.
I don't know if I'd camp out for the PS5 yet (or if the all-digital life is going to destroy that aspect of community). But either way: doing silly things for the tech we enjoy is what makes us tech enthusiasts. (And these camp-out social events are a great way to meet people and interact with the tech community).
Most Hackintosh users are very like Devs.
Some really expensive software is not going to have a home in a few years, I would be livid if I bought reason on it or some other £300+ software.
Even emulated, the experience could be limited, those shits at Apple like to screw people for any type of memory and short change massively in memory in most cases, video and music editing likes it's memory.
Granted, it's only because apple controls the supply chain that this happens, but still.