Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 450 - August 9th, 2026

[video] Reducing Graphics API Complexity: A Clean Slate Design for Modern GPUs traces the evolution of graphics APIs from OpenGL to D3D12, Vulkan, and Metal highlights the complexity bottleneck of modern APIs, including driver overhead, pipeline state object (PSO) stuttering, and resource-heavy barriers proposes an alternative design utilizing a simple GPU memory model, pointer-based bindings, as…