Metal (API) (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Metal (API)" in English language version.

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apple.com (Global: 67^th place; English: 64^th place)

developer.apple.com

"Getting started with Metal-CPP - Metal".
Apple Inc. "Metal Shading Language Specification" (PDF).
"Setting Up a Command Structure". Apple Inc.
"Metal Shading Language Guide". September 8, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
Apple Inc. "Setting Resource Storage Mode".
"Synchronizing a Managed Resource". Apple Inc.
"GPU Selection in macOS". Apple Inc.
"Metal Performance Shaders".
"Metal 2". Apple Developer. Apple. November 20, 2017. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017 – via Wayback Machine.
"Bring your Metal app to Apple Silicon Macs". developer.apple.com. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
"Discover Metal 3". developer.apple.com. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
"Program Metal in C++ with metal-cpp". developer.apple.com. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
"Metal feature set tables" (PDF). Apple.
Apple Inc. "WWDC 2017 Platforms State of the Union".

apple.com

Smith, Colin; Meza, Starlayne (June 8, 2015). "Apple Announces OS X El Capitan with Refined Experience & Improved Performance". Newsroom. San Francisco: Apple.

arstechnica.com (Global: 388^th place; English: 265^th place)

Machkovech, Same (June 2, 2014). "Apple gets heavy with gaming, announces Metal development platform". Ars Technica. Condé Nast.

blizzard.com (Global: 8,880^th place; English: 8,891^st place)

news.blizzard.com

"HEROES OF THE STORM BALANCE PATCH NOTES — NOVEMBER 29, 2017". news.blizzard.com. November 29, 2017.

forbes.com (Global: 54^th place; English: 48^th place)

Chiappetta, Marco (December 11, 2018). "Apple Turns Its Back On Customers And NVIDIA With macOS Mojave". Forbes.

khronos.org (Global: 9,657^th place; English: 6,690^th place)

"Vulkan Applications Enabled on Apple Platforms". Khronos Group Press Release. Retrieved February 24, 2021.

phoronix.com (Global: 4,683^rd place; English: 3,096^th place)

Larabel, Michael (June 1, 2018). "Initial Vulkan Performance On macOS With Dota 2 Is Looking Very Good". Phoronix. Retrieved June 5, 2018.

polygon.com (Global: 180^th place; English: 133^rd place)

McWhertor, Michael (September 9, 2014). "This is the game Apple used to show off iPhone 6". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on September 11, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.

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McWhertor, Michael (September 9, 2014). "This is the game Apple used to show off iPhone 6". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on September 11, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
"Metal 2". Apple Developer. Apple. November 20, 2017. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017 – via Wayback Machine.
"Metal feature set tables (2022)" (PDF). Apple. Archived from the original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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"X-Plane 11.50 Public Beta 1: Vulkan and Metal Are Here". X-Plane Developer. April 2, 2020. Retrieved April 2, 2020.

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Kondrak, Krzysztof [@k_kondrak] (February 9, 2019). "vkQuake2 gets MacOS support" (Tweet). Retrieved February 9, 2019 – via Twitter.

youtube.com (Global: 9^th place; English: 13^th place)

"WWDC 2023 - Game Porting Toolkit and Metal updates". YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
"WWDC 2024 - Game Porting Toolkit 2 and more". YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
"WWDC 2025 - Metal 4 Announcement". YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2025.