June 8, 2015
Metal supported GPU
This info comes from metal driver availability, not from real test
Metal supported card families:
Nvidia – GeForce gtx 4xx and newer
Intel – HD4000 and newer (ivy bridge and newer)
AMD – HD7000 and newer
Some apps to test metal support -= Metal.zip
MetalInfo to show some (very minimal) device Information and MetalTest – simple 3d box rendered with Metal
Example of MetalInfo output:
MetalInfo!
Metal Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
Lower Power Device: No
Headless Device: Yes
[…] requirements are also fairly high. An initial driver take apart has found that a GeForce GTX 400, Intel HD4000, or AMD 7000 series GPU is required. Unless it was […]
I don’t think Fermi GPUs are supported, there is no mention of Fermi (or Maxwell for that matter) in GeForceMTLDriver, just Kepler functions. And GeForceAIRPlugin only has a libdevice for sm_30 and sm_35.
I’d guess Nvidia can and will support Maxwell in a driver update (CUDA NVVM uses the same sm_35 libdevice for Maxwell, so GeForceAIRPlugin shouldn’t be a problem), but I doubt there will be Fermi support.
For Intel, I can confirm that HD 4000 works. HD 5000 and BDW should as well (there are drivers for these).
Can’t say anything about AMD.
Hi,
thank you for these tools, I have been searching everywhere… On my Mid 2012 Macbook these demo apps activates my secondary GPU, can you prepare build that uses Metal, but requests integrated GPU? or iterate over GPUs?
Thanks
На gtx460 не работает
The Metal app doesn’t seem to start the 2nd GPU of my Mac Pro at all.
Currently running 60 copies of the app and only 1 of the 2 D700s is under load.
Is there a more complicated demo that can be made. Textured versions with a way of spawning more cubes?
Thanks,
Anthony
Last login: Sat Jun 13 13:01:01 on ttys000
/Users/fotis/Downloads/Metal/MetalInfo ; exit;
Makis:~ fotis$ /Users/fotis/Downloads/Metal/MetalInfo ; exit;
MetalInfo!
No Metal Device Found
logout
Saving session…completed.
What does it mean?
Will be able to run OSX 11 without Metal GPU support? older GPU like nvidia GT210 or GTX275? Thanks for the answer.
@Fotis
It seems you don’t have a supported GPU… -> No Metal Device Found
At least for the moment… Need to hope for a better driver support (AMD, Nvidia, Intel) or Apple support (with the next betas maybe)
to Acool:
Fermi GT430 [GF108, 10de:0de1] at Beta-1 (15A178w)
MetalInfo tells that device is supported “Metal Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 430”
MetalTest hangs with artifacts. http://cl.ly/image/0P2Z0g3H3x2k Maybe it will be fine in later builds of El Capitan.
Hello
test run:
MetalInfo!
Metal Device Name: Intel Iris Pro Graphics
Lower Power Device: No
Headless Device: Yes
[…] netkas.org also has a list of supported GPUs according to the current drives of DP1. […]
hi
is there any way to bypass supported cards checking function?
I mean, I have a HD5770 which it works OOB but according to the note, must have HD7000 or newer.
regards
Does any AMD card run set up as a primary card in bios on El Capitan? No intel+amd bullshit., no “it should”, Does it fucking run as primary?
I tried the command on mobile hd4000
Metal Device Name: Intel HD Graphics 4000
Lower Power Device: No
Headless Device: No
the test app crashes though.