The new backend is ready for testing! If you are using Blender on a Mac, download the daily alpha build from and give it a try. If you are developing add-ons with custom drawing code, make sure you are using the gpu API. The upcoming GPU backend changes (both Metal and Vulkan) do not support the legacy bgl API. Note for add-on developersĮven though the bgl Python API still works in current releases of Blender, it has been deprecated in favor of the gpu API. Next to that, the main target is to introduce support for the upcoming Real-time Compositor (in the 3D Viewport), which is currently not available on macOS. Here are the results of some benchmarks, performed on a MacBook Pro laptop with an M1 Max chip.īesides bug fixing, a few patches to improve support of AMD and Intel graphics devices are expected to be merged. The goal of these contributions is to provide the best Blender experience on Apple hardware, as Blender is moving on from OpenGL. The contributions started with Metal for Cycles and then continued with Metal as a GPU backend, for EEVEE, and the UI system. Currently, the Metal backend needs to be manually set under Preferences → System.Īround one year ago, after joining the Blender Development Fund and seeding hardware to Blender developers, Apple empowered a few of its developers to directly contribute to the Blender source code. This functionality has been in the works for a while, and it can be enabled through Preferences.Ĭurrently, the default backend is still OpenGL, but the goal is to switch to Metal after a period of testing and feedback. Next to Metal-accelerated computing in Cycles, it is now possible to enjoy improved EEVEE viewport (and UI) performance as well. If using an AMD GPU, the only supported add-in card with Metal support is:ĪMD Radeon 7950 (Tahiti Pro) Sapphire card.The upcoming Blender 3.5 release now provides a Metal GPU backend on macOS builds! These configurations are unsupported, but some customers have found them to work.
It's possible to build custom Mac systems with Metal support, either using an old Mac Pro and upgrading the graphics card or building it from scratch using compatible parts (Hackintosh). These are the Mac computers that support Metal:
Metal is a graphics technology from Apple that allows faster and more fluid graphics.
The Witness requires Metal for rendering. We released The Witness for MacOS a little while back, and we felt it'd be a good idea to post the system requirements somewhere so we could link people to them when they ask.
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