---
title: MTLArchitecture
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtlarchitecture
---

# MTLArchitecture

A class that contains the architectural details of a GPU device.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTLArchitecture
```

## Topics

### Inspecting a GPU device’s architecture details

- [name](metal/mtlarchitecture/name.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Identifying a GPU device

- [name](metal/mtldevice/name.md)
- [architecture](metal/mtldevice/architecture.md)
- [registryID](metal/mtldevice/registryid.md)
- [location](metal/mtldevice/location.md)
- [MTLDeviceLocation](metal/mtldevicelocation.md)
- [locationNumber](metal/mtldevice/locationnumber.md)
- [isLowPower](metal/mtldevice/islowpower.md)
- [isRemovable](metal/mtldevice/isremovable.md)
- [isHeadless](metal/mtldevice/isheadless.md)
- [peerGroupID](metal/mtldevice/peergroupid.md)
- [peerCount](metal/mtldevice/peercount.md)
- [peerIndex](metal/mtldevice/peerindex.md)