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Vulkan VS Metal

Compare Vulkan VS Metal and see what are their differences

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Vulkan logo 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.

Metal logo Metal

Apple's low-level, hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API.
  • Vulkan Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-11
  • Metal Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-23

Vulkan

Categories
  • Game Engine
  • Game Development
  • 3D Game Engine
  • 2D Game Engine
Website khronos.org
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Metal

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  • Game Engine
  • Game Development
  • 3D Game Engine
  • 2D Game Engine
Website developer.apple.com
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Vulkan videos

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Everything about Vulkan and if you should use it in Rainbow Six Siege

More videos:

  • Review - Vulkan 1.2 Released
  • Review - Review Lansete Select Baits Vulkan

Metal videos

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METAL WE MISSED 2019 as chosen by you | Overkill Reviews

More videos:

  • Review - Death METAL Troopers - Reaction / Review

Category Popularity

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Vulkan

Metal

Game Engine
57 57%
Game Engine
43% 43
Game Development
59 59%
Game Development
41% 41
3D Game Engine
63 63%
3D Game Engine
37% 37
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Metal seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 38 times since March 2021. 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.

Vulkan mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Vulkan yet. Tracking of Vulkan recommendations started around Mar 2021.

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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What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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.

GLFW - GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...

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

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