Metal: Enabling AppleTV as Gaming Device?

[BruiserB]

I don't really understand the technicalities of what this Metal technology that Apple introduced yesterday is....but I do understand that it gives iOS devices the ability to manage graphics heavy tasks to a much greater extent than they can now.

Even though they only showed off the technology on iPhone and iPad, I couldn't help but think the real advantage to this will be enabling "console level" performance, as they referred to it more than once, on current or future Apple TV models.

I don't believe any beta iOS8 release happened for the AppleTV, but I'm sure there is an ATV version that will be released at some point.

 

[Menel]

Read the Anand review. Apple published an execution flowchart showing a 3 Core CPU. There is no A7 with more than 2 cores.

 

[0000757]

Read the Anand review. Apple published an execution flowchart showing a 3 Core CPU. There is no A7 with more than 2 cores.

In the Keynote they said how it was designed for the A7.

But TC is correct, this technology could lead the ATV to become a gaming platform.