Nicol Bolas

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Should new graphics programmers be learning Vulkan instead of OpenGL?

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What does "st" mean in the context of OpenGL?

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Why can't we have hardware-specific graphics APIs?

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What are Metal and Vulkan?

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What's the main difference of pipeline process between Vulkan and DX12?

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What are the use cases for multiple render passes?

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What's different between D3D12_CPU_PAGE_PROPERTY_WRITE_COMBINE and D3D12_CPU_PAGE_PROPERTY_WRITE_BACK, and why they're named like that?

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Is vkCmdPushDescriptorSetKHR efficient?

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Can I use QueryPerformanceCounter to measure single draw or compute call performance?

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