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2. Free and open-source graphics device driver - Wikipedia

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   Most free and open-source graphics device drivers are developed by the Mesa project. The driver is made up of a compiler, a rendering API, and software which manages access to the graphics hardware. Drivers without freely (and legally) -available source code are commonly known as binary drivers.

3. nouveau (software) - Wikipedia

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   In the middle: the FOSS stack, composed out of DRM & KMS driver, libDRM and Mesa 3D.Right side: Proprietary drivers: Kernel BLOB and User-space components. nouveau (/ n uː ˈ v oʊ /) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.

4. Mesa (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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   Gallium3D is a set of interfaces and a collection of supporting libraries [154] intended to ease the programming of device drivers for 3D graphics chipsets for multiple operating systems, rendering or video acceleration APIs. It is free and open-source graphics device driver software. A feature matrix is being provided at mesamatrix.net.

5. DirectX - Wikipedia

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   Direct3D (the 3D graphics API within DirectX) is widely used in the development of video games for Microsoft Windows and the Xbox line of consoles. Direct3D is also used by other software applications for visualization and graphics tasks such as CAD/CAM engineering.

6. AMD Software - Wikipedia

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   Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 14.4 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11 on Hardware, and 10.2 for DirectX 9.0c cards. [citation needed] Windows Vista: 7.2: 13.12: Driver updates and support stopped at AMD Catalyst 13.12 for video cards with support up to DirectX 11. [citation needed] Windows 7: 9.3: 18.9.3 22.6.1 [43]

7. Direct3D - Wikipedia

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   Direct3D contains many commands for 3D computer graphics rendering; however, since version 8, Direct3D has superseded the DirectDraw framework and also taken responsibility for the rendering of 2D graphics. [7] Microsoft strives to continually update Direct3D to support the latest technology available on 3D graphics cards.

8. Omega Drivers - Wikipedia

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   Omega Drivers [1] were unofficial, third-party device drivers for ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, created by Angel Trinidad. [2] They differed from the official drivers in that they offer more customization and extra features. [3] They are compatible with some ATI graphics cards and some NVIDIA cards that use Detonator drivers.

9. Mantle (API) - Wikipedia

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   The draw call improvements of Mantle help alleviate cases where the CPU is the bottleneck. The design goals of Mantle are to allow games and applications to utilize the CPUs and GPUs more efficiently, eliminate CPU bottlenecks by reducing API validation overhead and allowing more effective scaling on multiple CPU cores, provide faster draw routines, and allow greater control over the graphics ...