On: Blender 2.92

[adammenges]

Is this the version that gets Apple M1 support? I know it’s on their roadmap and I thought it was 2.92, but I don’t see anything in the release notes. Might not be big enough to mention.

[kinghtown → adammenges]

I saw it was 2.93 for arm support. I’m waiting to see how it performs. The word is that M1 is fantastic for real-time animation playback and physics sims but lags a bit in rendering. So I’m curious about the next m1 chips and arm support from blender.

[slezyr → adammenges]

Well, it's dead. It was dead even before M1. It's not fun to render on CPU.

> GPU rendering is only supported on Windows and Linux; macOS is currently not supported.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...

[thisisauserid → slezyr]

Not only not dead but almost done: https://developer.blender.org/T78710

It'll prolly be in the 2.93 alpha soon.

[slezyr → thisisauserid]

That's just a support for CPU rendering. How are going to render without GPU acceleration? It might take hours to finish.

[thisisauserid → slezyr]

The problems with GPU rendering and MacOS are myriad even outside the M1.