It's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API

Wednesday 07th December 2011, 09:24:00 PM, written by Alex Voicu

Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, getting more than a little help from our friends. We hope you will enjoy reading this as much as we did!

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directx ± ati, nvidia, amd, intel, microsoft, graphics

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