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Anderstand OpenCl / OpenGl Es

Jerome Decamps - 杜尚杰

Hi 

I have a newbie question

What are the main differencies between OpenCl and OpenGl Es ?

In which case do you use the first or the second ?

 

May you explain me shortly ?

Thanks & regards,

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  • +1 Arm Employee Badge in reply to Peter Harris

    To help lessen confusion, Chris mentioned the Graphics aspect of OpenGL ES, whereas Pete mentioned the fact that OpeGL ES also supports Compute functionality as of version 3.1.

    OpenCL is a much more comprehensive Compute API, but does not do Graphics.

    In summary, you use OpenGL ES for rendering graphics, and OpenCL to do a lot of Compute workloads, however with GLES 3.1, you can now do some compute workloads within the GLES API, although it is not as extensive.

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  • +1 Arm Employee Badge in reply to Peter Harris

    To help lessen confusion, Chris mentioned the Graphics aspect of OpenGL ES, whereas Pete mentioned the fact that OpeGL ES also supports Compute functionality as of version 3.1.

    OpenCL is a much more comprehensive Compute API, but does not do Graphics.

    In summary, you use OpenGL ES for rendering graphics, and OpenCL to do a lot of Compute workloads, however with GLES 3.1, you can now do some compute workloads within the GLES API, although it is not as extensive.

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