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Good to see Zink now provides OpenGL over Vulkan for smaller GPU makers. I wonder if big ones will also eventually use it for it.
by shmerl 3y ago
Good to see Zink now provides OpenGL over Vulkan for smaller GPU makers. I wonder if big ones will also eventually use it for it.
- snvzz 3y agoI suspect that, by now, the only reason the other mesa3d opengl drivers exist is historical. If these vendors came up with different enough hardware to need a new driver from scratch, they'd just focus on Vulkan and use Zink for opengl. After all, opengl is a relatively high level API. It is sensible to implement it in a hardware-independent manner on top of Vulkan.
- anthk 3y agoNo, not even close. On Intel in some chipset(s) Vulkan is not as performant as OpenGL 4.6. Gallium3D with Iris it's the future against the old pipeline, tho. For instance, I get OpenGL 2.1 in my netbook with the new drivers, 1.4 with the old ones instead.
- clhodapp 3y agoThe big players will probably switch once we get to the point that nothing still running on OpenGL needs optimally efficient usage of the GPU (either because it's old or because it was never performance-critical to start with, such as a student project).