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Alternatives to OpenGL

WebGL, OpenCL, CUDA, and GPU.js are the most popular alternatives and competitors to OpenGL.
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What is OpenGL and what are its top alternatives?

It is a cross-language, cross-platform application programming interface for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit, to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering.
OpenGL is a tool in the Graphics Libraries category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to OpenGL

  • WebGL
    WebGL

    It is integrated completely into all the web standards of the browser allowing GPU accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas. Its elements can be mixed with other HTML elements. ...

  • OpenCL
    OpenCL

    It is the open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of diverse processors found in personal computers, servers, mobile devices and embedded platforms. It greatly improves the speed and responsiveness of a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories including gaming and entertainment titles, scientific and medical software, professional creative tools, vision processing, and neural network training and inferencing. ...

  • CUDA
    CUDA

    A parallel computing platform and application programming interface model,it enables developers to speed up compute-intensive applications by harnessing the power of GPUs for the parallelizable part of the computation. ...

  • GPU.js
    GPU.js

    Automatically compile simple JavaScript functions into shader language and run them on the GPU. In case a GPU is not available, the functions will still run in regular JavaScript. ...

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WebGL

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A JavaScript API for rendering 3D graphics within any compatible web browser
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      OpenCL

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      The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems
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          CUDA

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          It provides everything you need to develop GPU-accelerated applications
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              GPU.js

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              JavaScript Acceleration library for GPGPU (General purpose computing on GPUs)
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