Apple has shared more information about Metal 3 with the release of macOS 13 ‘Ventura’. The latest version of its proprietary DirectX counterpart should allow games like Resident Evil Village and No Man’s Sky to run on Macs. Both will be playable this year, with No Man’s Sky coming to iPad as well.
The public beta of macOS 13 will be available starting next month.
To make AAA games work as they should, Apple is working on its own scaler. MetalFX Upscaling renders a game at a lower resolution and then enhances the game using a spatial booster and temporary anti-aliasing. This should provide more fps while maintaining image quality as with techniques from AMD, Intel and Nvidia.
Exact performance figures are not shared, but it is stated that the latest MacBook Air Resident Evil Village can run smoothly at 1080p. The Mac Studio is even said to be able to deliver a “breathtaking 4k experience”.
In addition, Apple also wants to introduce improvements in the area of load times: With the Fast Resource Loading API, storage should be able to establish a more direct link to (video) memory, so games with more complex graphics can be loaded. Faster. This technique is also used by Microsoft’s DirectStorage API and AMD’s SmartAccess Storage, where fast NVME SSDs are used to provide faster load times.
Source: Apple
Source: Hardware Info
