Modern hardware does not need texture atlases as it can use a different texture for every pixel. Texture atlas is a workaround for the API that only allows one

Modern hardware does not need texture atlases as it can use a different texture for every pixel. Texture atlas is a workaround for the API that only allows one set of textures per primitive and imposes a huge overhead on each primitive at the same time (e.g. OpenGL, DirectX).