http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/03/20/opengl-gdc2014/
Great to see OpenGL with fighting talk when it comes to zero driver overheads. DX12? OpenGL? Looking like good competition and I would love to see the Khronos group come out on top
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NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Explain How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains
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Great to see OpenGL with fighting talk when it comes to zero driver overheads. DX12? OpenGL? Looking like good competition and I would love to see the Khronos group come out on top
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Without watching the vid, one of the problems with openGL support is the moving goal posts. While it's very difficult to get extensions passed, it's possible and it's bogged down with them.
Look at the issues both companies have with supporting DX games and DX effectively stays at the same driver level for 2-3 years at a time. Now imagine if every third AAA game manages to get a new extension added.
This is where DX12 and Mantle "win", when you pass the majority of the control off to the game engine, the responsibility is with the game makers and the driver is pretty slim which should make driver issues for most games pretty simple longer term.
I in general think that multiple high level, extremely high support level requiring API's is a pretty bad idea. Multiple low level API's where the drivers are simply and put the onus on game makers... is absolutely the best way forward IMHO. It's less work for the dev's as well, due to the level of control and the lack of two sets of black boxes the software has to go through(driver and API) then finding problems is massively easier when the game maker is in entire control and the driver is very small and simple to understand, with a high level of validation/debugging tools built in.
Look at the issues both companies have with supporting DX games and DX effectively stays at the same driver level for 2-3 years at a time. Now imagine if every third AAA game manages to get a new extension added.
This is where DX12 and Mantle "win", when you pass the majority of the control off to the game engine, the responsibility is with the game makers and the driver is pretty slim which should make driver issues for most games pretty simple longer term.
I in general think that multiple high level, extremely high support level requiring API's is a pretty bad idea. Multiple low level API's where the drivers are simply and put the onus on game makers... is absolutely the best way forward IMHO. It's less work for the dev's as well, due to the level of control and the lack of two sets of black boxes the software has to go through(driver and API) then finding problems is massively easier when the game maker is in entire control and the driver is very small and simple to understand, with a high level of validation/debugging tools built in.
Crytek, Epic and Valve's new engines support OpenGL. It's up to the game designers and developers to make a good game. Not the underlying API.
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