The latest Apple graphics technology is specifically designed to address the performance and efficiency pain points in current application development. It wants to achieve an effect, which is to make it easier for developers to use the potential of the hardware.
Simplified API and performance improvements
The new version of the graphics framework focuses on simplification. Its API design reduces the complexity of sending instructions to the chip, allowing developers to control Apple chips more directly. This simplification directly reduces additional overhead, making applications more efficient when managing a large number of textures, buffers and other resources.
Faster compilation and explicit control
The compilation process is now faster and the behavior is more predictable. Developers can adopt new methods to reduce compilation lags when applications are running. By using dedicated compilation contexts, the compilation priorities of different tasks can be managed to ensure that critical operations are not affected.
Native machine learning support
This technology, for the first time, natively supports the core data structure of tensors at the API and shading language levels. Developers can encode machine learning commands into a common type of graphics command stream and use the same mechanism for synchronization. This paves the way for directly executing large neural networks or inline inference operations in graphics applications.
Efficient resource management and migration
The new sparse texture technology allows applications to use system memory more flexibly by loading only the portion of texture data they need. For porting games from other platforms, it provides a familiar coding model, which can help teams migrate DirectX or Vulkan games to the Apple ecosystem more quickly.
Enhanced rendering and ray tracing
The quality of rendering has been improved, and the integrated denoising function makes high-resolution images clearer. The emerging frame interpolation technology has supporting capabilities and can present smoother dynamic pictures. Ray tracing capabilities have also been enhanced, providing more flexible intersection function management and fine-grained control over accelerated structure construction.
Progressive Adoption and Tool Integration
For developers, it is not necessary to rewrite the entire code at once, but to adopt the features that have the greatest value to their own projects step by step. The corresponding toolkit can help evaluate the effect of game porting, and the shader conversion tool can improve the performance of shader code converted from other platforms.
When asked about achieving console-level image quality on mobile devices, which technology are you most looking forward to achieving a breakthrough? Welcome to the comment area to share your views on this. If you feel that this article is really helpful, please give it a like to express your support.
