Comparison of AMD Graphics Processing Units - OpenGL Version Note

OpenGL Version Note

OpenGL version indicates which graphics acceleration operations the card implements.

  • OpenGL 1.1 – Texture objects
  • OpenGL 1.2 – 3D textures, BGRA and packed pixel formats
  • OpenGL 1.3 – Multitexturing, multisampling, texture compression
  • OpenGL 1.4 – Depth textures
  • OpenGL 1.5 – Vertex Buffer Object (VBO), Occlusion Queries
  • OpenGL 2.0 – GLSL 1.1, MRT, Non Power of Two textures, Point Sprites, Two-sided stencil
  • OpenGL 2.1 – GLSL 1.2, Pixel Buffer Object (PBO), sRGB Textures
  • OpenGL 3.0 – GLSL 1.3, Texture Arrays, Conditional rendering, Frame Buffer Object (FBO)
  • OpenGL 3.1 – GLSL 1.4, Instancing, Texture Buffer Object, Uniform Buffer Object, Primitive restart
  • OpenGL 3.2 – GLSL 1.5, Geometry Shader, Multi-sampled textures
  • OpenGL 3.3 – GLSL 3.30 Backports as much function as possible from the OpenGL 4.0 specification
  • OpenGL 4.0 – GLSL 4.00 Tessellation on GPU, shaders with 64-bit precision
  • OpenGL 4.1 - GLSL 4.10 Developer-friendly debug outputs, compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0
  • OpenGL 4.2 - GLSL 4.20 Shaders with atomic counters, draw transform feedback instanced, shader packing, performance improvements
  • OpenGL 4.3 - GLSL 4.30 Compute shaders leveraging GPU parallelis, shader storage buffer objects, high-quality ETC2/EAC texture compression, increased memory security, a multi-application robustness extension

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