Mandelbrot set via Apple Silicon Metal 3

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start with template
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/performing-calculations-on-a-gpu

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apple silicon results

Performance

• block size 16 x 16, 5000 iterations of 4096x4096 images with max mandelbrot iteration of 8192

perf	sec	/run	# GPUs	% GPU	Watts	TDP	Chip	Cores	GPU spec
11.7	23	.0092	1	99	904	94	AD-102	32768	dual RTX-4090 Ada (no NVLink (not used 48G))
5.85	46	.0092	1	99	452	94	AD-102	16384	RTX-4090 Ada 24G
3.44	78	.0312	1	99	388	97	GA-102	14336	dual RTX-A4500 with NVLink (not used) 40G
2.66	100	.02	1	99	304	102	GA-102	10752	RTX-A6000 48G
2.56	191	.0382	1	99	102	?	AD-104	5120	RTX-3500 Ada 12G Thermal Throttling
1.72	156	.0312	1	99	194	97	GA-102	7168	RTX-A4500 20G old
1.29	208	.0416	1	99	143	102	GA-104	6144	RTX-A4000 16G old
1.16	231	.0462	1	98	120	?	M4 Max 40	5120	Macbook Pro 16 M4Max 48G
1	269	.0538	1	99	105	?	TU-104	3072	RTX-5000 16G
0.78	344	.0688	1	97	120	?	M2 Ultra 60	7680	Mac Studio 2 M2Ultra 64G
0.47	571	.1142	1	79-98		?	M4 Pro 16	2048	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24G
0.39	693	.1386	1	95		?	M1 Max 32	4096	Macbook Pro 16 M1Max 32G