Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

The Khronos Group that maintains the OpenGL API launched two new flavors of the specification at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week. OpenGL 4.0 is designed to update the API to DirectX ...

We recently had the chance to sit down with some folks at NVIDIA to discuss high performance graphics APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With all of the noise recently surrounding AMD’s Mantle ...

你经常会听到诸如DirectX 12、Vulkan和OpenGL的名词，这其实是三种主流的图形API（应用程序编程接口），它们为开发者提供了与显卡硬件交互的工具，用于渲染2D和3D图像——游戏以及3D渲染工具实际上都离不开这些API。再浅显一点，你可以将这三种API理解为人（开发 ...

Two new implementations is expected to come soon that will be a boon for PC gamers. Following Mantle API, DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access to provide more efficient ways of ...

When a new OpenGL specification has been released, its merely the standardization of OpenGL extensions that have been around for a long time. Implicitly stating OpenGL is always behind Direct3D in ...