Editing OpenGL (section)

===OpenGL 4.6===
''Release date:'' July 31, 2017<ref name="OpenGLRegistryRoot"/><ref name="khronos 4.6-2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-releases-opengl-4.6-with-spir-v-support|title=Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.6 with SPIR-V Support|date=July 31, 2017|publisher=The Khronos Group Inc|access-date=July 31, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Kessenich">{{cite web | last1=Kessenich | first1=John | last2=Baldwin | first2=Dave | title=The OpenGL Shading Language, Version 4.60.7 | website=The Khronos Group Inc | url=https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec.4.60.html | access-date=August 21, 2019}}</ref>
* more efficient, GPU-sided, [[geometry processing]]
* more efficient shader execution ([[Glossary of computer graphics#azdo|{{abbr|AZDO|Approaching Zero Driver Overhead}}]])
* more information through statistics, overflow query and counters
* higher performance through no error handling contexts
* [[Clamping (graphics)|clamping]] of [[Polygon graphics|polygon]] offset function, solves a shadow rendering problem
* [[Standard Portable Intermediate Representation#SPIR-V|SPIR-V]] shaders
* Improved [[anisotropic filtering]]

Hardware support: AMD [[Radeon HD 7000 series]] and newer (FP64 shaders implemented by emulation on some TeraScale GPUs), Intel [[Skylake (microarchitecture)|Skylake]] and newer, Nvidia [[GeForce 400 series]] and newer.<ref name="nvidia-opengl4.6">{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-OpenGL-4.6-Driver |title=NVIDIA Releases 381.26.11 Linux Driver With OpenGL 4.6 Support |first=Michael |last=Larabel |date=July 31, 2017 |website=[[Phoronix]]}}</ref>

Driver support:
* [[Mesa (computer graphics)|Mesa]] 19.2 on [[Linux]] supports OpenGL 4.6 for Intel Broadwell and newer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenGL-4.6-Mesa-19.2-Intel |title=Intel's OpenGL Linux Driver Now Has OpenGL 4.6 Support For Mesa 19.2 |first=Michael |last=Larabel |date=August 21, 2019 |website=[[Phoronix]] }}</ref> Mesa 20.0 supports AMD Radeon GPUs,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RadeonSI-GL-4.6-NIR-Lands |title=AMD's RadeonSI Driver Finally Enables OpenGL 4.6 |first=Michael |last=Larabel |date=November 27, 2019 |website=[[Phoronix]] }}</ref> while support for Nvidia Kepler+ is in progress. Zink as Emulation Driver with 21.1 and software driver LLVMpipe also support with Mesa 21.0.
* [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]] Adrenalin 18.4.1 Graphics Driver on [[Windows 7]] [[Windows 7#Service Pack 1|SP1]], [[Windows 10|10]] version 1803 (April 2018 update) for AMD Radeon HD 7700+, HD 8500+ and newer. Released April 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geeks3d.com/20180501/amd-adrenalin-18-4-1-graphics-driver-released-opengl-4-6-vulkan-1-1-70/|title=AMD Adrenalin 18.4.1 Graphics Driver Released (OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.1.70) – Geeks3D|website=www.geeks3d.com|date=May 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Radeon-Software-Adrenalin-Edition-18.4.1-Release-Notes.aspx|title=Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.4.1 Release Notes|website=support.amd.com|language=en-US|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Intel]] 26.20.100.6861 graphics driver on [[Windows 10]]. Released May 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geeks3d.com/20190516/intel-graphics-driver-25-20-100-6861-released-opengl-4-6-vulkan-1-1-103/|title=Intel Graphics Driver 25.20.100.6861 Released (OpenGL 4.6 + Vulkan 1.1.103) {{!}} Geeks3D|date=May 16, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=May 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Windows 10 DCH Drivers | website=Intel DownloadCenter | url=https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28783/Intel-Graphics-Windows-10-DCH-Drivers | access-date=August 21, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Nvidia|NVIDIA]] [[GeForce]] 397.31 Graphics Driver on [[Windows 7]], [[Windows 8|8]], [[Windows 10|10]] [[x86-64]] bit only, no [[32-bit]] support. Released April 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geeks3d.com/20180425/nvidia-geforce-397-31-graphics-driver-released-opengl-4-6-vulkan-1-1-rtx-cuda-9-2/|title=NVIDIA GeForce 397.31 Graphics Driver Released (OpenGL 4.6, Vulkan 1.1, RTX, CUDA 9.2) – Geeks3D|website=www.geeks3d.com|date=April 25, 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=May 10, 2018}}</ref>