30/04/2013 April 2013 OpenGL status
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The tested drivers this month are AMD Catalyst 13.4, Intel 9.18.10.3006 and NVIDIA Forceware 320.00 beta.
It's started to be a little complicated to follow AMD drivers release. Catalyst 13.4 are supported to be stable drivers but it appears to provide more rescent OpenGL drivers than Catalyst 13.5 beta 2. While Catalyst 13.5 beta 2 exposes to same features as Catalyst 13.3 beta drivers, Catalyst 13.4 provides many new OpenGL 4.3 extensions.
- GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
- GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_compute_shader
- GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
- GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location
- GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
- GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata
- GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
- GL_ARB_program_interface_query
- GL_ARB_shader_image_size
- GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object
- GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
- GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range
- GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
- GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample
Mesa has also made some progress adding the support for GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range (4.3), GL_ARB_texture_query_lod (4.0), GL_ARB_texture_multisample (3.2) and GL_ARB_get_program_binary (4.1) even if for this last case, not binary format is actually supported...
An OpenGL specification bug: Interaction between the program pipeline object and subroutine
AMD OpenGL implementation is generating an error when calling glUniformSubroutines and using a program pipeline object which forces us to bind a program object to set the subroutines. Unfortunately, this behaviour follows the OpenGL 4.3 specification which fells like a specification bug.
An INVALID_OPERATION error is generated if no program is active.
Once again, don't forget to contribute to the OpenGL community by reporting your bugs!
- OpenGL Hardware Matrix April 2013: (PDF, 471 KB) (XLSX, 112 KB)
- OpenGL Drivers Status April 2013: (PDF, 309 KB) (XLSX, 102 KB)
- glCapsViewer report for AMD Catalyst 13.4
- glCapsViewer report for Intel HD Graphics 9.18.10.3006
- glCapsViewer report for NVIDIA Forceware 320.00 beta
- Download page for AMD Catalyst 13.4
- Download page for Intel HD Graphics 9.17.10.3062
- Download page for NVIDIA Forceware 320.00 beta
- OpenGL Samples Pack 4.3.2.1: (ZIP, 4.7 MB) (7Z, 2.9 MB)