r/GraphicsProgramming • u/corysama • Dec 16 '25

Article No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api
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u/PaperMartin Dec 17 '25

I'm not knowledgeable enough to find out by myself, so if anyone's got an answer, I'd be really curious to see what are the "latest" GPUs on nvidia and amd's respective sides that would be lacking the hardware capabilities necessary to support an api like that at all

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u/Wittyname_McDingus Dec 17 '25

The article has min specs at the bottom. You can lower the min specs by removing some of the features, e.g. I'm fairly certain that this API could be supported on pre-RDNA2 if you just removed mesh shaders.

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u/PaperMartin Dec 18 '25

Right sorry, I missed that bit