# Ray-tracing on Apple silicon
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ray-tracing-on-apple-silicon/17374
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ray-tracing-on-apple-silicon/17374 "2025-12-14T18:00:29Z")
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### Author:  [@AlexandreDaby](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/AlexandreDaby)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ray-tracing-on-apple-silicon/17374/1 "2025-12-14T18:00:29Z")
Hi everyone,
It seems that Paraview’s ray-tracing capabilities on the newer MacBooks only utilise the CPU without leveraging the hardware-accelerated ray-tracing capabilities of the newer chips. Is there a plan to enable hardware acceleration on Apple’s ARM chips or to enable Metal acceleration for ray tracing on Macs?
Thanks a lot
Alexandre
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ray-tracing-on-apple-silicon/17374/2 "2025-12-15T09:13:10Z")
The current raytracing implementation you are using is Intel OSPray, which is now considered legacy and will not be ported to GPU.
A new raytracing implementation, Anari, is currently being integrated in VTK/ParaView: [Advancing Scientific Visualization: Highlights from the ANARI Virtual Hackathon 2025](https://www.khronos.org/blog/advancing-scientific-visualization-highlights-from-the-anari-virtual-hackathon-2025)