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title: mk-study-blender-apple-silicon
tags: [' study', mk]

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# mk-study-blender-apple-silicon

so far the fastest option seems to be 
* selecting Metal and them `Apple M1 Max (GPU)` in preferences
* then selecting GPU compute in the Renderer

## simple orange

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F03DFRV8KEJ/orange-1.png?pub_secret=ce52ade54c)

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F03DKJEQ30D/orange-2.png?pub_secret=efb866f125)

## reflective metal

looks really bad—need some kind of anti-aliasing? 

Cycles = 2-3 minutes

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F03DQRWPBCL/metal-1.png?pub_secret=78350922bc)

Eevee = 3 seconds

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F03DFS87ZQW/metal-2.png?pub_secret=ea560568d5)