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Blender May Drop OpenGL Support in Version 6.0
The Blender development team is evaluating a proposal to remove OpenGL support in version 6.0, potentially shifting entirely to Vulkan by November 2027.
October 6, 2026, 03:46 PM·cnBeta.COM

The Blender development team is evaluating a proposal to remove OpenGL support in version 6.0, potentially shifting entirely to Vulkan by November 2027.

Phoronix has benchmarked the performance of Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends using the Lemonade local AI server on two distinct hardware platforms.

An enthusiast has ported DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics using a custom Vulkan-based implementation on Linux.

A developer has ported DLSS 5 neural rendering to Intel Arc 140V integrated graphics using a custom implementation that runs on Xe XMX units.

2GIS engineers optimized the Zenith Engine by offloading GPU resource creation to background threads to prevent rendering stalls.
