OpenGL 4.5 Released With New Features

[dungeon]

There's no other vendor with a driver out, so they are fast, or at least faster than the rest.

Ah yes, that is how that going on for decades . First Nvidia, then AMD... and other are expected to follow, but they can't .

[blackout23]

It seems that OpenGL 5.0 will not be announced soon, instead Kronos asks interested parties to join an effort of creating a next-gen API. Link (German only, sorry):

http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/3D-...u-2289616.html

That really interesting and Heise.de is a very trustable source.

Die konkreten Ziele hat Khronos bereits festgelegt: Die Schnittstelle soll in Hinblick auf die Architektur moderner GPUs von Grund auf neu gestaltet werden und vor allem einen geringeren Overhead und verbessertes Multithreading bieten. Dazu soll eine gemeinsame Shading-Programmiersprache kommen und die M?glichkeit der expliziten Anwendungskontrolle ?ber GPU- und CPU-Workloads.

Sounds like a complete rewrite also with a now shading language to better control GPU/CPU workload.

[przemoli]

Broadcom: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
Qualcomm: 1 [ARB_derivative_control]
Nvidia: 7 [ARB_clip_control, ARB_cull_distance, ARB_direct_state_access, ARB_get_texture_sub_image, KHR_robustness, ARB_shader_texture_image_samples, ARB_texture_barrier]
AMD: 4 [ARB_cull_distance, ARB_conditional_render_inverted, KHR_context_flush_control, ARB_direct_state_access]
Intel:
Unity: [ARB_direct_state_access]
CodeWeavers: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
VMWare: 4 [ARB_clip_control, ARB_cull_distance, ARB_conditional_render_inverted, ARB_get_texture_sub_image]
Valve: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
HI Corporation: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
Blizzard: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
Transgaming: 1 [KHR_robustness]



Big GPU vendor:
Nvidia

Big missing GPU vendor:
Intel

Big virtual GPU vendor:
VMWare

Big middleware vendor:
Unity

Big game dev:
Blizzard



And where is Google?

[log0]

Use the new way, new is always better.

http://youtu.be/RsLdLKT9Vvs

Only if it was actually true for OpenGL.

[tuke81]

And where is Google?

https://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/ANDROID/ANDROID_extension_pack_es31a.txt

Google does not really care desktop apis.

[flim]

There's no other vendor with a driver out, so they are fast, or at least faster than the rest.

Remember, it's a beta driver

[_ONH_]

Broadcom: 1 [ARB_clip_control]
Qualcomm: 1 [ARB_derivative_control]
Nvidia: 7 [ARB_clip_control, ARB_cull_distance, ARB_direct_state_access, ARB_get_texture_sub_image, KHR_robustness, ARB_shader_texture_image_samples, ARB_texture_barrier]
AMD: 4 [ARB_cull_distance, ARB_conditional_render_inverted,
And where is Google?

Well I would rather take a look at who contributeded to the extensions, .

[dungeon]

Well I would rather take a look at who contributeded to the extensions, .

Guess without looking Nvidia, then AMD, then others... is it?

If more contributions are from non GPU maker, then something must be weird in this world .

[M@yeulC]

Which begs the question why AMD can't do the same...

They already explained their reasons, this is related to their 3 months quality control and release schedule. That said, I don't see why they couldn't release some "unstable alpha" with a big disclaimer...

I can't wait to see reports of games utilizing ARB_clip_control on computers with unsupported drivers. This should be fun
At least, this extension is (at first glance) almost trivial to implement, I didn't check the others.

[blackout23]

...3 months quality control...

That cheered me up.