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[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

they've written a custom GPU framework to achieve the performance the level of performance they have. it's currently only compatible with macos, but is being ported to other operating systems.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why in the world wouldn't you just use Vulkan? Then it would still be portable to other platforms with probably still good performance, no?

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

vulkan is a graphics api, not a framework. their framework is using vulkan.

[–] davawen@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is wrong. Their framework uses metal, which is an apple only graphics API.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

My bad, I was referring to the new Linux implementation which is using Vulkan, which was not clear. The MacOS implementation only supports Metal, as MacOS does not support Vulkan natively. I assume the Vulkan implementation will also be what is used for the Windows build.

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