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SoftwareMaven on Aug 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Valve: OpenGL is faster than DirectX — even on Win...

That 0.4 millisecond difference is down to how fast the DirectX pipeline can process and draw 3D data.

So let me see if I can follow this: OpenGL is faster than DirectX because...OpenGL is faster than DirectX?

danudey on Aug 2, 2012 [–]

OpenGL is faster than DirectX because the pipeline is shorter/faster/more efficient/etc. i.e. it's not due to texture copying, worse memory addressing, driver issues, programmer error, etc.

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