Metal

Low level API like Vulkan and DirectX 12. It can be used on apple platforms only, so OSX and iOS.

=== Startup

MTLDevice

MTLCommandQueue

=== Memory

=== Assets

MTLBuffer

MTLTexture

MTLSamplerState

MTLRenderPipelineState

=== Binding

=== Command

MTLCommandBuffer

=== Drawing

MTLRenderPassDescriptor

MTLRenderCommandEncoder

=== Synchronize

Reference

• Metal for Developers

• Metal Programming Guide

• Metal Shading Language Guide

  • Metal Framework Reference

  • Apple Videos

    • Working with Metal: Overview

    • Working with Metal: Fundamentals

    • Working with Metal: Advanced

    • What's New in Metal, Part 1

    • What's New in Metal, Part 2

    • Metal Performance Optimization Techniques

Tutorials

• • An Introduction to 3D Graphics with Metal in Swift - 2015

  • iOS 8 Metal Tutorial with Swift: Part 1 and Part 2. - 2014

  • iOS 8: Getting Started With Metal - 2014

  • Objc.io - Metal - 2014

• The Metal Framework

  • Writing a Modern Metal App from Scratch: Part 1 and Part 2

Links

• About GPU Family 4 - Metal 2.0

  • Metal for Game Developers - 2018

  • metal shaders: luminance and color adjustments - 2018

  • Underestanding PowerVR GPUs via Metal - 2015

  • OS X Metal - Raw Notes - 2015

  • The Race to the Metal - 2014

  • Writing a Modern Metal App from Scratch: Part 1 and Part 2

  • Picking and Hit-Testing in Metal - 2018

  • Moving from OpenGL to Metal - 2019

  • The Metal Framework

  • Introduction to compute using Metal - 2019

• Introducing Metal 3

• What’s New in Metal (2019)

• Vertex Data and Vertex Descriptors

  • Metal Enhancements for A13 Bionic

Vertex Data and Vertex Descriptors

Metal retrospective - 2016

https://zeux.io/2016/12/01/metal-retrospective/

Engine Internals: Optimizing Our Renderer for Metal and iOS

https://medium.com/@heinapurola/engine-internals-optimizing-our-renderer-for-metal-and-ios-77aeff5faba