MetalFX and the ANE.

[Jimmyjames]

Do we know the extent to which MetalFX (Temporal) uses the ANE and or AI/ML? A cursory search yields some suggestions that it does, including from @leman on Reddit I think, and Philip Turner on the Apple forums. Trying it out on my M4 does show that with MetalFX Quality mode there is some ANE usage, but it seems really low: less than 5%. Can that be correct?

 

[mr_roboto]

Do we know the extent to which MetalFX (Temporal) uses the ANE and or AI/ML? A cursory search yields some suggestions that it does, including from @leman on Reddit I think, and Philip Turner on the Apple forums. Trying it out on my M4 does show that with MetalFX Quality mode there is some ANE usage, but it seems really low: less than 5%. Can that be correct?

Seems plausible to me. M4 has a 38 TOPS ANE, so 5% of that is 1.9 TOPS. If you assume it's upscaling to 10MP, that'd be about 190K math ops per output pixel per second, or 3166 per pixel at 60 FPS.

 

[Jimmyjames]

Seems plausible to me. M4 has a 38 TOPS ANE, so 5% of that is 1.9 TOPS. If you assume it's upscaling to 10MP, that'd be about 190K math ops per output pixel per second, or 3166 per pixel at 60 FPS.

Ahhh ok. Makes sense. Thanks.

 

[diamond.g]

Does ANE utilization go up if you choose MFX Performance?

I also wonder if MFX Denoising uses AI model (like nvidia ray reconstruction).

 

[dada_dave]

Black Myth: Wukong, Hogwarts Legacy, and the Witcher 3 run at 60 FPS on macOS Tahoe 26 with Metal 4

A new video from Blendlogic Tech explores gaming performance on Apple silicon using the latest macOS and tools. The creator tests several popular titles to see how far Mac gaming has come.

www.notebookcheck.net

Nvidia’s framegen apparently works quite well in Hogwarts Legacy through translation layers on an M1 Max. It must be using the ANE. I haven’t watched the original video just read the article so unclear how many other details there are.

 

[diamond.g]

Black Myth: Wukong, Hogwarts Legacy, and the Witcher 3 run at 60 FPS on macOS Tahoe 26 with Metal 4

A new video from Blendlogic Tech explores gaming performance on Apple silicon using the latest macOS and tools. The creator tests several popular titles to see how far Mac gaming has come.

www.notebookcheck.net

Nvidia’s framegen apparently works quite well in Hogwarts Legacy through translation layers on an M1 Max. It must be using the ANE. I haven’t watched the original video just read the article so unclear how many other details there are.

The comparisons to FSR are odd. Apple doesn't hook it through a special path like they do DLSS so of course there is a performance hit.

Wonder if Apple is able to convert the transformer model or if it is just the CNN.