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Opengl 4.3 amd9/5/2023 ![]() ASTC was the winning proposal in Khronos's search for a next-generation texture compression format, with the ARM/AMD bloc beating out NVIDIA and their ZIL proposal.Īs the winning proposal in that search, if all goes according to plan ASTC will eventually become OpenGL and OpenGL ES’s mandatory next generation texture compression algorithm. The reward at the end of that quest is Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), a new texture compression format first introduced by ARM in late in 2011. So while Khronos has ETC right now, in the future they want better texture compression and are now taking the first steps to make that happen. At the same time however, the ETC format itself is approaching several years old, and not unlike S3TC it’s only designed for a limited number of cases. ![]() As we’ve noted in our rundowns of OpenGL and OpenGL ES, the inclusion of ETC texture compression support as part of the core OpenGL standards has finally given OpenGL a standard texture compression format after a number of years.
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