Big Sur Metal Rocks!

Holy Cow Batman! Are we in an alternate reality?

Big Sur is the first MacOS release to finally fix the Metal render accuracy problem that plagued earlier MacOS releases.

iOS 14 led the way. FA on iOS has also received the same benefit.

Now every image in Fractal Architect’s builtin test suite of fractals render exactly the same on:

  • Intel CPU – MacOS
  • Intel GPU – MacOS
  • AMD GPU – MacOS
  • Apple M1 CPU – MacOS
  • Apple M1 GPU – MacOS
  • iPhone – iOS
  • iPad – iPadOS

Now you can use Metal multi GPU rendering on Mac Pros with confidence.

2 thoughts on “Big Sur Metal Rocks!”

  1. In your app, is it possible to select a subset of Metal GPUs greater than one? I have tried -.

    I have a couple GPUs connected by Thunderbolt to a macbook pro 16,2 running Catalina. I would like to select just those and exclude the integrated Intel graphics.

    1. Yes. The app Preferences allow you to set the selected render devices + selected render platform.

      The app does not automatically select them by default.

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