> How come the result is suddenly so much better? Unfortunately I don't know enough about the technical details to say for sure And then the author specluates.

> How come the result is suddenly so much better? Unfortunately I don't know enough about the technical details to say for sure And then the author specluates. It is a given that the OpenGL pipeline is more efficient than Direct3D. That's what is actually being measured here. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-faster-than-directx-even-on-windows http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/133824-valve-opengl-is-fas... In my experience, webGL has some nasty performance gotchas and native, full OpenGL can be much faster still because of instancing, attribute divisors and so on.