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Metal VS SFML

Compare Metal VS SFML and see what are their differences

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Metal logo Metal

Apple's low-level, hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API.

SFML logo SFML

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.
  • Metal Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-23
  • SFML Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-09-29

Metal videos

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METAL WE MISSED 2019 as chosen by you | Overkill Reviews

More videos:

  • Review - Death METAL Troopers - Reaction / Review

SFML videos

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Coding a Simple SFML Game Framework in C++/ SFML

More videos:

  • Review - A Closer Look at SFML
  • Review - ALLEGRO vs. SDL vs. SFML (Game Programming Q&A)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Metal and SFML)

Metal

SFML

Game Engine
37 37%
Game Engine
63% 63
Game Development
36 36%
Game Development
64% 64
3D Game Engine
33 33%
3D Game Engine
67% 67
2D Game Engine
100 100%
2D Game Engine
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Metal seems to be a lot more popular than SFML. While we know about 38 links to Metal, we've tracked only 1 mention of SFML. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Metal mentions (38)

  •  Resident Evil Village MetalFX Play-through
    MetalFX Upscaling Render complex scenes in less time per frame with high-performance upscaling and anti-aliasing. This year, MetalFX Upscaling supports more devices with improved quality and increased scaling. https://developer.apple.com/metal/. Source: 7 months ago
  • Users report iPhone 15 is overheating
    I suspect they are trying to compete in the console market without having a console per se. AFAIK the iPhone 15 Pro has 1/3rd of the TFLOPs of the Playstation 5. They also have a smooth TV-connectivity system. Most people who have consoles in the US already have an iPhone in their pocket. Now you just need a controller, some kind of dock for the phone, and pay off a lot of devs to make games for the platform to... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • Hi. It seems that everybody is using the GPTK on its own to run games for them to play... Does this tool really help for game development to actually port a game for a commercial penetration to MAC environments?
    Hmm, I don't think that's how they have presented it from watching all the WWDC videos. From the link I sent (https://developer.apple.com/metal/) it's also in a different header. But this is probably kind of a pointless semantics argument haha. Maybe internally Apple can't agree on this anyway. Source: 10 months ago
  • Personal GPT: A tiny AI Chatbot that runs fully offline on your iPhone
    Barring 3D games, this is perhaps one of the heavier apps that run on a phone. The model takes up about 2.2GB of memory, which is more than half of the memory on most iPhones (except the 12, 13 Pro Maxes and 14 series). Also LLM inference is surprisingly light on the CPU, but quite GPU intensive (because the iOS app uses Metal). So I guess the analogy of games is quite apt. Source: 10 months ago
  • Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
    Https://developer.apple.com/metal/ find any mention of WINE, crossover, or even just 'open source'? Source: 11 months ago
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SFML mentions (1)

  • Open source recreation of the PS Vita game -- Calling all creators
    I would like to recreate the Plastic Memories PS Vita game as a free, open source, cross-platform (any platform SFML runs on*) game for everyone to enjoy. I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to put into it (I don't have much time between school and various other projects of mine) but I can handle the code, coordination, and source code hosting. Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Metal and SFML, you can also consider the following products

Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.

raylib - Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.

Vulkan - Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level...

WebGL - WebGL is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser.

Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.

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