Technologies

3D on Apple silicon

True high-performance workstations

An alternative to Nvidia and AMD

Apple Silicon, particularly the M2 and subsequent chips, represent a significant advancement in processing power and efficiency, making them ideal for 3D applications. These chips feature a unified memory architecture, which allows the CPU and GPU to access the same memory pool, reducing the latency and increasing the speed of data transfer, providing more cores and better performance per watt compared to many traditional chips. This means they can handle complex 3D rendering tasks more efficiently, leading to smoother graphics and faster processing times.

Framework

Metal

Metal powers hardware-accelerated graphics by providing a low-overhead API, rich shading language, tight integration between graphics and compute.

Apps

Blinder

Blender’s comprehensive array of 3D modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze. Open source app.

Apps

Cinema4D

Professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation and rendering software solution. Its fast, powerful, flexible and stable toolset for most 3D workflows.

Apps

Cheetah3D

Cheetah3D is a powerful and easy to learn 3D modeling, rendering and animation software which was developed from the ground up for Mac.

Apps

Maya

Maya is professional 3D software for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects. Bring believable characters to life.

Apps

Autocad

CAD software that is used for precise 2D and 3D drafting, design, and modeling with solids, surfaces, mesh objects and more.



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