What's happening with Blender, Molten VK and Metal?

Any Blender/MacOS developers out there giving up real lives to bring Blender & Metal together; please take a break and fill us Mac users in on what’s up. We’re hungry for any news.

The situation hasn’t changed much recently as far as I know.

They are currently working on Eevee for Vulkan to make it faster. Eevee for Metal is not planned. The idea is to use MoltenVK which sort of bridges Vulkan to Metal. It is not 100% optimal, but likely still a decent option.

There are no plans for specialized Cycles on Mac solutions.

Thanks. My only concern is being able to use my GPU to render cycles so I’m anxious to have some of the same capabilities as windows users.

I get the opinion there are a few volunteers beginning to work on it for the last year or so and wondered what progress if any, there is.

i just came across this:

https://twitter.com/Sol_HSA/status/1174233868536356866

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