In short: OpenGL is faster than DirectX. As for why OpenGL is faster than DirectX/Direct3D, the simple answer is that OpenGL seems to have a smoother, more efficient pipeline.

Valve will be speaking about its Linux/OpenGL advancements at SIGGRAPH 2012 next week. SIGGRAPH is where we usually hear about the latest OpenGL and DirectX news, too -- so stay tuned!

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X.

The graphics library, an alternative to Microsoft's DirectX, gets new features designed to add razzle-dazzle to PC games.

Over at this years GDC some slides where shown demonstrating that DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access in order to reduce draw overhead.

OpenGL galvanizes game graphics The graphics library, an alternative to Microsoft's DirectX, gets new features designed to add razzle-dazzle to PC games.

OpenGL and DirectX most likely will be following AMD Mantle API's footsteps by providing low-level access for video cards.

Hey!Lemme first say that I did a search and couldn't find anything on this, so be kind :-)Which video mode should I use Software, OpenGL, or DirectX? A little background...I've been fighting the ...

Hey there arsians. I program a bit in DirectX making some small trivial games and I was wondering about the differences between DirectX and OpenGL graphics hardware, which leads me to my questions ...

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's ...

First person shooter godfather John Carmack has revealed that he now prefers DirectX to OpenGL, saying that 'inertia' is the main reason why id Software has stuck by the cross-platform 3D graphics ...

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Khronos Group unveiled its Vulkan applications programming interface as the successor to the OpenGL graphics standard that is widely used in ...