AMD releases driver with OpenGL 3.2 support

Category: General • Developers •

Dec 17, 2009

This release of ATI Catalyst™ provides support for OpenGL 3.2 extension support on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI Radeon™ HD 3000 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series. The following is a list of OpenGL™ 3.2 features and extensions added in ATI Catalyst™ 9.12:

• Support for OpenGL Shading Language 1.50.
• BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra).
• Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex).
• Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions).
• Provoking vertex control (GL_ARB_provoking_vertex).
• Seamless cube map filtering (GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map).
• Multisampled textures and texture samplers for specific sample locations (GL_ARB_texture_multisample).
• Fragment depth clamping (GL_ARB_depth_clamp).
• Geometry shaders (GL_ARB_geometry_shader4).
• Fence sync objects (GL_ARB_sync).

View complete release notes on the ATI website.