supports the following hardware and software stated as below: Apple A13 or later Apple silicon with iOS 16, iPadOS 16 or later iOS or iPadOS operating system Apple M1 SoC or later Apple silicon with macOS Ventura or later macOS operating system Intel Processor with Intel UHD 630 or Iris Plus (Kaby Lake or later) with macOS Ventura or later macOS operating system AMD Graphics with RDNA architecture (5000 and 6000 series) and Pro Vega (5th generation GCN architecture) Adoption According to Apple, more than 148,000 applications use Metal directly, and 1.7 million use it through high-level frameworks, as of June 2017. macOS games using Metal for rendering are listed below. See also Direct3D – DirectX 12 introduces low-level APIs Mantle – low-level API by AMD Vulkan – low-overhead successor to OpenGL MoltenVK - software compatibility library to run Vulkan software on top of the Metal API WebGPU References External links Metal for Developers Metal Programming Guide (preliminary) WWDC14 demo; extended version Install macOS 10.14 Mojave on Mac Pro (Mid 2010) and Mac Pro (Mid 2012) - Apple article explaining what GPUs are compatible with Apple's Metal APIs on Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave) operating system Computer-related introductions in 2014 3D graphics APIs Graphics libraries IOS