Opengl delivers fast and complete 3d hardware acceleration

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by aeltani November 28, 2008 02:33 AM

3 comments, last by RobTheBloke 15 years, 4 months ago

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November 28, 2008 02:33 AM

Hi, I don't understand this sentence. Could you please explain it to me. What is hardware acceleration? "Opengl delivers fast and complete 3d hardware acceleration".

ToohrVyk

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November 28, 2008 03:03 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_acceleration

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aeltani

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November 28, 2008 03:32 AM

So that means that Opengl instructions are computed on graphic cards IF a graphic card exists in the computer?

I still don't understand the "fast" part. Do they mean that it is well implemented, so it executes fast?

HuntsMan

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November 28, 2008 07:19 AM

Quote:Original post by aeltani
I still don't understand the "fast" part. Do they mean that it is well implemented, so it executes fast?

Usually a dedicated hardware is tens or hundreds of times faster than a software implementation, specially on graphics.

RobTheBloke

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November 28, 2008 07:20 AM

hardware acceleration is 'fast' compared to software acceleration. The 'complete' part depends very much on the quality of the drivers for your specific graphics card.