OpenGL ES

Versions

OpenGL ES 1.0

• quad and polygon rendering primitives;
• texgen, line, and polygon stipple;
• polygon mode and antialiased polygon rendering are not supported, although rendering using multisample is still possible ;
• ARB_Image pixel class operations, bitmaps, and 3D textures are not supported;
• several of the more technical drawing modes are eliminated, including frontbuffer and accumulation buffer;
• bitmap operations for copying pixels individually, evaluators, and user selection operations are not allowed;
• display lists and feedback are removed, as are push and pop operations for state attributes;
• and some material parameters were removed, including back-face parameters and user-defined clip planes.

OpenGL ES 1.1

OpenGL ES 2.0

OpenGL ES 3.0

• multiple enhancements to the rendering pipeline to enable acceleration of advanced visual effects including: occlusion queries, transform feedback, instanced rendering and support for four or more rendering targets;
• high quality ETC2 / EAC texture compression as a standard feature, eliminating the need for a different set of textures for each platform;
• a new version of the GLSL ES shading language with full support for integer and 32-bit floating point operations;
• greatly enhanced texturing functionality including guaranteed support for floating point textures, 3D textures, depth textures, vertex textures, NPOT textures, R/RG textures, immutable textures, 2D array textures, swizzles, LOD and mip level clamps, seamless cube maps and sampler objects;
• an extensive set of required, explicitly sized texture and render-buffer formats, reducing implementation variability and making it much easier to write portable applications.

OpenGL ES 3.1

• Compute shaders
• Independent vertex and fragment shaders
• Indirect draw commands

OpenGL ES 3.2

• Geometry and tessellation shaders to efficiently process complex scenes on the GPU.
• Floating point render targets for increased flexibility in higher precision compute operations.
• ASTC compression to reduce the memory footprint and bandwidth used to process textures.
• Enhanced blending for sophisticated compositing and handling of multiple color attachments.
• Advanced texture targets such as texture buffers, multisample 2D array and cube map arrays.
• Debug and robustness features for easier code development and secure execution.

Platform usage

OpenGL ES 1.0

• Nokia 6630

  OpenGL ES 1.1

• Android 1.6
• Apple iOS for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
• RIM's BlackBerry 5.0 operating system series
• BlackBerry PlayBook
• BlackBerry BB10
• Various Nokia phones such as Nokia N95, N93, N93i, and N82.
• The Palm webOS, using the Plug-in Development Kit
• Nintendo 3DS

  OpenGL ES 2.0

• The Android platform since Android 2.0 through NDK and Android 2.2 through Java
• AmigaOS on AmigaOne with Warp3D Nova and compatible Radeon HD graphics card.
• Apple iOS 5 or later in iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone 3GS or later, and iPod Touch 3rd generation or later
• BlackBerry devices with BlackBerry OS 7.0 and Blackberry 10, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook
• Google Native Client
• Intel HD Graphics 965G / X3000 and higher
• Nvidia, Curie NV40+: Linux, Windows
• Various Nokia phones
• Palm webOS, using the Plug-in Development Kit
• The Pandora console
• The Raspberry Pi
• The Odroid
• Various Samsung mobile phones
• Web browsers
• The GCW Zero console
• The PlayStation Vita portable console
• The PlayStation 4 console

  OpenGL ES 3.0

• Android since version 4.3, on devices with appropriate hardware and drivers, including:
• * Nexus 7
• * Nexus 4
• * Nexus 5
• * Nexus 10
• * HTC Butterfly S
• * HTC One/One Max
• * LG G2
• * LG G Pad 8.3
• * Samsung Galaxy J5
• * Samsung Galaxy J5
• * Samsung Galaxy S4
• * Samsung Galaxy S5
• * Samsung Galaxy Note 3
• * Samsung [Galaxy Note 10.1 ]
• * Sony Xperia M
• * Sony Xperia Z/ZL
• * Sony Xperia Z1
• * Sony Xperia Z Ultra
• * Sony Xperia Tablet Z
• iOS since version 7, on devices including:
• * iPhone 5S
• * iPad Air
• * iPad mini with Retina display
• BlackBerry 10 OS since version 10.2, on devices including:
• * BlackBerry Z3
• * BlackBerry Z30
• * BlackBerry Passport

• Adreno 300 and 400 series
• Mali T600 series onwards
• PowerVR Series6
• Vivante
• Nvidia, Tesla G80+: Linux, Windows 7+
• Intel HD Graphics Sandy Bridge and higher
• AMD Terascale and actual GCN-architecture
• LLVMpipe and Softpipe: soft drivers in Mesa
• VIRGL: virtual Driver for virtual machines in 2018 with Mesa 18.1

  OpenGL ES 3.1

• Adreno 400 series
• Adreno 500 series
• AMD Terascale and actual GCN-architecture
• Intel HD Graphics for Intel Atom Z3700 series
• Intel HD Graphics for Intel Celeron N and J series
• Intel HD Graphics for Intel Pentium N and J series
• Intel HD Graphics Haswell and higher
• Mali T6xx series onwards
• Nvidia GeForce 400 series onwards
• Nvidia Tegra K1
• Nvidia Tegra X1
• PowerVR Series 6, 6XE, 6XT, 7XE and 7XT
• Vivante GC2000 series onwards
• panfrost: ARM panfrost support
• v3d: Driver for Broadcom VideoCore in Mesa
• * The Raspberry Pi 4 and 5
• VIRGL: virtual Driver for virtual machines in 2018 with Mesa 18.1
• LLVMpipe: software driver in Mesa 20.2
• softpipe: software driver in Mesa 20.3
• Zink: emulation driver in Mesa 21.1
• d3d12: WSL2 linux driver for Microsoft 10+
• Apple M1 and M2 graphics in Fedora Asahi Remix

  [|Android Extension Pack]

OpenGL ES 3.2

• Adreno 420 and newer
• AMD GCN-architecture
• Intel HD Graphics Skylake and higher
• Mali-T760 and newer
• Nvidia GeForce 400 series and newer
• VIRGL: virtual Driver for virtual machines in 2018 with Mesa 18.1
• LLVMpipe: software driver in Mesa 20
• Zink: Vulkan emulation driver in Mesa 21.2

  Deprecation in Apple platforms

The future

OpenGL compatibility

• Nvidia offers a 2-clause BSD licensed library called Regal, originally started by Cass Everitt. It was last updated in 2016. Regal is used for example by Google's NaCl.
• The MIT licensed GL4ES emulates OpenGL 2.1/1.5 using GL ES 2.0/1.1. It is based on glshim.