ATI Catalyst™ 8.9 brings some OpenGL 3 extensions to Windows

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 in Computer Graphics | No comments

AMD has released ATI Catalyst™ 8.9, which includes a number of OpenGL 3 extensions:

  • ARB_half_float_pixel
  • ARB_draw_instanced
  • ARB_instanced_arrays
  • ARB_map_buffer_range
  • EXT_texture_compression_3dc
  • EXT_texture_compression_rgtc
  • EXT_texture_compression_latc
  • EXT_texture_shared_exponent
  • EXT_depth_buffer_float
  • EXT_gpu_shader4

The addition of the geometry instancing extensions and of gpu_shader4 (GLSL 1.20) is particularly significant, as they expose functionality that has been available since DirectX™ 9, and of course DirectX™ 10 features as well.

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