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		om2 on Feb 7, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API Modern graphics APIs help you reduce the CPU bottleneck for CPU-bound graphics code. Parallelism, command buffers and generally thinner drivers all help reduce the CPU overhead.

JoshTriplett on Feb 8, 2017 [–]

Exactly. They also help you keep the GPU saturated, and minimize round-trips between the GPU and CPU.

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