(iTers News) - The dEQP release 2013.4 has been completed just in time for closing the year 2013. New year, new test cases.

Here are some examples of tests added in the release.

- OpenCL now has tests for barriers, kernel atomic operations, and asynchronous memory transfers.

- Tests for EGL context creation extensions added.

- OpenGL ES tests covering, for example, FBO completeness, GLSL invariant qualifier, and GLSL scoping rules.

- Performance tests for GLSL compiler optimizations

- Added OpenCL functional tests for all platform and runtime object queries

The 2013.4 release brings approximately 8700 new cases across GLES2, GLES3, EGL, OpenCL, and GL3 modules.

drawElements Quality Program, or dEQP, is a powerful toolkit for benchmarking the accuracy, precision, feature conformance and stability of OpenGL ES and OpenCL GPUs. It enables detailed quality comparisons between different vendors and GPU architectures, as well as providing high-quality tools for analyzing and debugging any issues uncovered by the tests.

dEQP can be utilized throughout the design, deployment and application development phases of a GPU platform; for analysis during IP selection, as an independent benchmark for demonstrating product quality or to provide developer guidelines about the capabilities of different devices.