{"id":6741,"date":"2017-03-16T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2017-03-16T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:08:17","slug":"technology-apple-and-developers-really-need-to-step-up-gpu-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/technology-apple-and-developers-really-need-to-step-up-gpu-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology: Apple and Developers really need to step up GPU support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3223,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/33316524742&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;new&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;The Mac really needs GPU support&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/33316524742\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"The Mac really needs GPU support\"  width=\"\"  height=\"\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2859\/33316524742_72e38600da.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 Hour + video file in 4K (UHD) weighing in around 40 gigabytes. It\u2019s taking Handbrake 12+ hours to transcode from MKV to MPEG4. This is a 4Ghz Core i7 iMac Retina and I have a Radeon M395X with 4 gigabytes of VRAM just sitting there idle. It\u2019s a travesty that I can\u2019t take advantage of that power. Encodes would finish twice as fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 Hour + video file in 4K (UHD) weighing in around 40 gigabytes. It\u2019s taking Handbrake 12+ hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-03-16T14:08:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"4e1fae20-1f15-4802-a8d2-bc7efe3bc5e2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-03-16T14:08:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATh-uIB8VSAKo0rx-_jvF4g","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1KJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5427,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/no-one-needs-24-gigabytes-of-ram\/","url_meta":{"origin":6741,"position":0},"title":"&#8230;.No one needs 24 gigabytes of RAM","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Once a month, I hit a place where I actually use all of the RAM in my machine. 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