As with iOS, Metal in OS X El Capitan significantly reduces the graphics overhead that can occur on your computer when running OpenGL libraries, allowing low-level access to your Mac's graphics subsystem. Both photo applications and games and video editing software such as Adobe After Effects, will experience a clear improvement, being able to execute different actions up to ten times faster by offloading certain tasks to the CPU and GPU.
But how can we know if our Mac will be compatible with Metal and will take advantage of all these improvements. Then we leave you the list of Macs that will be supported.
First of all clarify that Metal for Mac takes advantage of the capabilities of all modern GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. In this sense, Apple has confirmed that Metal will support Macs released since 2012, that is, older models will not experience these speed increases promised by Metal.
Specifically, Metal will support any late 2012 Mac model, starting with the Mac mini onwards, including late 2012 iMac, mid 2012 Mac Pro, mid 2012 MacBook Air, 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros (Retina and non-Retina), and the new twelve-inch MacBook with Retina display.
To find out which computer model you have, you just have to go to the upper left corner on the desktop, click on > About this Mac and check the date that appears, in my case I am just at the limit with my iMac from the end of 2012 to take advantage of these benefits, as Metal is up to 40 percent more efficient when it comes to OpenGL rendering, according to Apple.
Metal combines the computing power of OpenCL and the graphical power of OpenGL in a high-performance API that does both.
Is apple wrong not to support teams of no more than 3 years?
Support if you are giving since the captain will even reach models from 2008, what happens is that to run Metal is another example, the same thing happens with the iPhone and iPad all received iOS 8 but not all have metal internally
Yes, I did read that the gpu was not rushing but every time an ios version is updated the model is limping more and things are not cheap for every 2 years to change models and maxime the new model is not to shoot rockets a little faster maybe more mhz and a little more one of the reasons that happened to android was that a greeting
So my Mac mini from mid-2011 won't benefit from Metal and will still be as fast as Windows Vista?
I will not play the game of obsolescence to buy another Mac.
There you find out that you have the fucking Macbook Pro MID 2012…. and not being able to use Metal, damn it !!!
Read well, it says the 13-inch macbook pro retina and no retina, and the last non-retina was in mid 2012, so relax, we are inside!
this website says very different things http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/which-macs-support-os-x-el-capitans-metal
What a bigger snub I am all happy for nothing ps my imac is a 2011 model
Notes came very close to what Microsoft OneNote is.
my Macbook is 13 inch mid 2010, I installed El Capitan and it is slow, it sticks. What I can do
Hey.
Metal is built into the El Capitan system? or there to install it?
I'm new.
Greetings.