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Tiago Costa
Tiago Costa

Reputation: 4251

OpenGL ES 2.0 on android phones without GPU?

Will a game run faster using OpenGL ES 2.0 on a Android device without GPU than using the Canvas? Or since it will run on CPU anyway there wont be any big differences in terms of performance?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1500

Answers (1)

Julio Gorgé
Julio Gorgé

Reputation: 10106

I'm not sure you can run OpenGL ES 2.0 on an Android device without GPU. And if you could, performance would be abysmal —you'd be lucky to move a Pong-like game @ 10 FPS—. Emulating vertex and pixel programs on software is several orders of magnitude slower than running them on a GPU.

Upvotes: 2

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