Blender 3.1 now has Metal GPU rendering for Macs with the M1 chip and its variants. A beta version of Blender 3.1 with Metal support was released back in December 2021, and the update is now ...

Metal GPU rendering for Cycles can be tested in the Blender 3.1 Alpha and was made possible by a contribution from Apple, which recently joined the Blender Development Fund to support continued ...

According to Blender, the new Metal GPU support allows for rendering times that are up to 2 times quicker. The app itself also runs faster on M1 Macs because the app now have direct access to the GPU.