Metal is a graphics technology from Apple that allows the main processor (CPU) and graphics processor (GPU) to work together more effectively, providing faster and more fluid graphics performance in games and high-performance apps. These Mac computers support Metal: MacBook (2015 and later) MacBook Air (2012 and later) MacBook Pro (2012 and later) Mac mini (2012 and later). Musica Metal on PC (Windows / MAC). Download and install BlueStacks or Remix OS Player. Open the installed BlueStacks or Remix OS Player and open the Google Play Store in it. Now search for “Musica Metal” using the Play Store. Install the game and open the app drawer or all apps in the emulator.
Sep 16, 2015 Like DirectX, Metal is intended to provide games and applications, direct access to your Mac’s GPU, allowing improved rendering, frame rates, and other benefits. Metal was actually introduced in iOS 8, but with the recent announcement that it will be rolled into OS X, 10.11, El Capitan, graphic performance on Macs, particularly with regard to gaming, is likely to improve by leaps and bounds.
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Jun 09, 2015 If you use a Mac to produce professional content, chances are, Metal is about to drastically speed up the professional apps you use like Adobe Illustrator and Autodesk Maya. Why Metal matters Let's take a step back for a moment: Metal is a set of tools that Apple's third-party developers can use for 3D rendering.
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Perhaps the most successful tech introduced with last Fall’s iOS 8 release was Metal, a graphics abstraction layer that makes developing and delivering performance faster and with fewer resources. Metal for Mac is arriving with the release of OS X El Capitan, the successor to Yosemite.
First off, what’s the significance of El Capitan? That’s California location within Yosemite, which is indicative that Apple is focussing this OS X release on polishing the desktop operating system.
That said, Metal for Mac the desktop is a new feature on the desktop. However, as far as developers are concerned, their investments in bring Metal to their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch will pay immediate dividends in bringing Metal to their Mac apps and games.
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Built for developers who create highly immersive console games, Metal is a new technology that allows them to squeeze maximum performance from the A7 and A8 chips. It’s optimized to allow the CPU and GPU to work together to achieve optimal performance. It’s designed for multithreading, and there are great tools for putting it all together in Xcode.
See also:Apple Developer Program Singularity: One and Done
Metal for Mac: Adobe Creative Cloud
“We are committed to adopting Metal on our OS X apps,” says David Wadhwani, VP & GM, digital media, Adobe. “With performance increases up to 8X, we are excited about what Metal can do for our Creative Cloud users.”
Adobe has said it will adapt all of its Creative Cloud Suite apps, including Illustrator (shown above).
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The Metal for Mac by Epic Games, which demo’d Fort Night (image above). As with all WWDC game demos, Fort Night looks awesome.
For developers, where the rubber meets the road is an up to 70 percent increase in performance when compared to OpenCL. And, again, as mentioned above, developers with Metal for iOS experience will be able to immediately leverage that in bringing their apps and games to Metal on the desktop.
I’m looking forward to Metal on the desktop and, as Apple is shipping the developer beta of OS X El Capitan today, look for more on OS X 10.11 and Metal right away…