Is there any vendor who doesn't do that? I remember conversations with Nvidia driver peeps on the OpenGL boards 20+ years ago, and it was very very striking tha

Is there any vendor who doesn't do that? I remember conversations with Nvidia driver peeps on the OpenGL boards 20+ years ago, and it was very very striking that they would always, always, flatly refuse to implement any kind of "is it in hardware?" query. Waste of time even asking. It wasn't spelled out, but I think the implied rationale was that doing so would just be used against them by competitors' marketing in a bullet-point feature comparison. And maybe a bit of "you don't care if it's hardware, you care if it's fast", which isn't unreasonable.