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		galad87 on Feb 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 Right, Blender Cycles for example can run on Metal, but neither on OpenGL or Vulkan. So while it's nice to have a working OpenGL, it depends if your workflow requires OpenGL apps.

vetinari on Feb 14, 2024 [–]

I would be very surprised, if Blender Cycles ever ran on top of OpenGL or Vulkan other than using OpenGL or Vulkan as a loader for compute shaders.

That's why it is running as CUDA/OptiX/HIP/oneAPI on Windows and Linux.

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