Finding Out The OpenGL Core Profile Version

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Finding Out The OpenGL Core Profile Version

With this morning's release of mesa-demos 8.1, which provides updates to the commonly used glxinfo command, it's now easy to find out the version of the OpenGL Core Profile supported by your graphics driver/hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTMxMTI

[plonoma]

Nice!
Core profiles are a very good thing.

[mark45]

An Intel dev said like a year ago that with their drivers a core profile saves up to 20MB of memory, iirc because the driver doesn't have to create and init legacy GL stuff for the context.

[chrisr]

it's now easy to find out the version of the OpenGL Core Profile supported by your graphics driver/hardware...

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV770
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 9.2-devel (git-f6487e8)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40

This is with an RV790 (HD4890).