---
title: name
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: metal/mtlarchitecture/name
---

# name

The name of a GPU device’s architecture.

## Declaration

```swift
var name: String { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The property’s value is equivalent to the output from the metal-arch command line tool on the same system. % xcrun metal-arch applegpu_g13s Apps can use this property’s value to make decisions at runtime. For example, an app could retrieve a GPU-specific file from its developer’s content delivery network (CDN), such as a shader library or binary archive. See Shader libraries and Shader library and archive creation for more information.