Rewritten OpenGL drivers make AMD’s GPUs “up to 72%” faster in some pro apps

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[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

OpenGL is kind of outdated anyway.

[–]notafed 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's still in use so improvements are a good thing.

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The trouble with Vulkan is that you have to write out all the boilerplate code manually. It's good that it lets you access those low-level details, but it shouldn't force you to do it for the vast majority of cases where you don't need to.