---
title: MPSGraphTensor
framework: metalperformanceshadersgraph
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphtensor
---

# MPSGraphTensor

The symbolic representation of a compute data type.

## Declaration

```swift
class MPSGraphTensor
```

## Overview

Overview NSCopy will take a refrence, this is so NSDictionary can work with the tensor. All tensors are created, owned and destroyed by the MPSGraph

## Topics

### Instance Properties

- [dataType](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphtensor/datatype.md)
- [operation](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphtensor/operation.md)
- [shape](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphtensor/shape.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [MPSGraphObject](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphobject.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

### Classes

- [MPSGraph](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraph.md)
- [MPSGraphCompilationDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphcompilationdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphConvolution2DOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphconvolution2dopdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphConvolution3DOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphconvolution3dopdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphCreateSparseOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphcreatesparseopdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphDepthwiseConvolution2DOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphdepthwiseconvolution2dopdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphDepthwiseConvolution3DOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphdepthwiseconvolution3dopdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphDevice](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphdevice.md)
- [MPSGraphExecutable](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphexecutable.md)
- [MPSGraphExecutableExecutionDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphexecutableexecutiondescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphExecutableSerializationDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphexecutableserializationdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphExecutionDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphexecutiondescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphFFTDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphfftdescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphGRUDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphgrudescriptor.md)
- [MPSGraphImToColOpDescriptor](metalperformanceshadersgraph/mpsgraphimtocolopdescriptor.md)