Apple’s WWDC 2024 keynote shone a light on gaming updates coming to the company's many platforms. And though they have been majorly overshadowed by Apple Intelligence, the announcement of Game Porting Toolkit 2 (GPTK2) alongside macOS Sequoia is a surprisingly big deal, thanks to a few key updates.
Game Porting Toolkit allows developers to more easily bring their games from other platforms to Apple's devices, and the new Game Porting Toolkit 2 expands the tool's capabilities. As well as unifying Xcode support for easier use by developers, GPTK2 works better to port games to multiple devices at once, and even comes with support for ray tracing and AVX/AVX2. AVX, for the uninitiated, is instructions for a CPU to perform certain demanding tasks outside of the traditional scope of a CPU. This originally came from Intel CPUs in the '00s that needed that extra power to work with some games.
