Resource creation

Topics

Working with resource heaps

• makeHeap(descriptor:)
• heapBufferSizeAndAlign(length:options:)
• heapTextureSizeAndAlign(descriptor:)
• heapAccelerationStructureSizeAndAlign(size:)
• heapAccelerationStructureSizeAndAlign(descriptor:)
• MTLSizeAndAlign

Creating buffers

• maxBufferLength
• makeBuffer(length:options:)
• makeBuffer(bytes:length:options:)
• makeBuffer(bytesNoCopy:length:options:deallocator:)

Creating textures

• makeTexture(descriptor:)
• makeTexture(descriptor:iosurface:plane:)
• makeSharedTexture(descriptor:)
• makeSharedTexture(handle:)
• minimumLinearTextureAlignment(for:)
• minimumTextureBufferAlignment(for:)

Creating samplers

• supportsTextureSampleCount(_:)
• makeSamplerState(descriptor:)
• getDefaultSamplePositions(sampleCount:)

Working with sparse textures

• sparseTileSize(textureType:pixelFormat:sampleCount:sparsePageSize:)
• sparseTileSize(with:pixelFormat:sampleCount:)
• sparseTileSizeInBytes(sparsePageSize:)
• sparseTileSizeInBytes
• convertSparsePixelRegions(_:toTileRegions:withTileSize:alignmentMode:numRegions:)
• convertSparseTileRegions(_:toPixelRegions:withTileSize:numRegions:)
• MTLSparsePageSize
• MTLSparseTextureRegionAlignmentMode

Creating acceleration structures for ray tracing

• makeAccelerationStructure(descriptor:)
• makeAccelerationStructure(size:)
• accelerationStructureSizes(descriptor:)
• MTLAccelerationStructureSizes

Creating argument buffer encoders

• argumentBuffersSupport
• maxArgumentBufferSamplerCount
• makeArgumentEncoder(arguments:)
• makeArgumentEncoder(bufferBinding:)

Creating fences and events

• makeFence()
• makeEvent()
• makeSharedEvent()
• makeSharedEvent(handle:)

Creating rasterization rate maps

• supportsRasterizationRateMap(layerCount:)
• makeRasterizationRateMap(descriptor:)

See Also

Working with GPU devices

• Device inspection
• Work submission
• Pipeline state creation
• Shader library and archive creation