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Is this the version that gets Apple M1 support? I know it’s on their roadmap and I thought it was 2.92, but I don’t see anything in the release notes. Might not be big enough to mention.

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I saw it was 2.93 for arm support. I’m waiting to see how it performs. The word is that M1 is fantastic for real-time animation playback and physics sims but lags a bit in rendering. So I’m curious about the next m1 chips and arm support from blender.

Well, it's dead. It was dead even before M1. It's not fun to render on CPU.

> GPU rendering is only supported on Windows and Linux; macOS is currently not supported.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/gpu_...

Not only not dead but almost done: https://developer.blender.org/T78710

It'll prolly be in the 2.93 alpha soon.

That's just a support for CPU rendering. How are going to render without GPU acceleration? It might take hours to finish.

The problems with GPU rendering and MacOS are myriad even outside the M1.

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