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Speed difference between d3d and ogl
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A person on another forum insists that ogl is about 20% faster than d3d. I''m quite sure that is not the case. Can anyone post some benchmarks or something to convince him I have searched but didn''t find anything useful.
I have searched but didn''t find anything useful.
For any decent hardware the difference is negligible to zero. There is no fundamental reason why one should be faster than the other.
doc is completely right, try this, make him tell you WHY its faster (and watch him go "uuhhhhh.....")
A few things that may impact performance:
Depending on hardware, switching vertex buffers in DX may be significantly more expensive than calling VertexPointer() in OpenGL.
DirectX doesn''t support quads, so if you use a lot of quads, you''ll find yourself sending 50% more vertex indices to DirectX than to OpenGL.
OpenGL doesn''t have good, well implemented support for rendertargets that are not the framebuffer; DirectX has a much better mechanism for this. If you do a lot of offscreen rendering, OpenGL may be slower.
DirectX doesn''t really have an immediate mode. If you use DrawPrimitivesUP(), it''ll usually be quite slow. If you use an immediate mode model, DirectX may run slower.
Anyway, give me $1,000 and tell me which API you want to be the fastest, and I will write the benchmark that "proves" that it is :-)
Depending on hardware, switching vertex buffers in DX may be significantly more expensive than calling VertexPointer() in OpenGL.
DirectX doesn''t support quads, so if you use a lot of quads, you''ll find yourself sending 50% more vertex indices to DirectX than to OpenGL.
OpenGL doesn''t have good, well implemented support for rendertargets that are not the framebuffer; DirectX has a much better mechanism for this. If you do a lot of offscreen rendering, OpenGL may be slower.
DirectX doesn''t really have an immediate mode. If you use DrawPrimitivesUP(), it''ll usually be quite slow. If you use an immediate mode model, DirectX may run slower.
Anyway, give me $1,000 and tell me which API you want to be the fastest, and I will write the benchmark that "proves" that it is :-)
Remember a lot of old games were programmed with ogl in mind, and a lot of cards didn''t match ogl performance with dx performance - take HL for example, dx perfomance is considerably worse than ogl peformance on most low end to moderate hardware
quote:Original post by hplus0603
OpenGL doesn''t have good, well implemented support for rendertargets that are not the framebuffer; DirectX has a much better mechanism for this. If you do a lot of offscreen rendering, OpenGL may be slower.
There is RenderToTexture extension and P buffers as well. Also OpenGL will have PBOs soon, which are like VBOs only they are used for pixels.
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