An OpenGL port of the Picture-Level Benchmark (PLB) is undergoing beta testing and is expected to be ready for reporting of performance numbers before the end of 1996. The PLB project group plans to demonstrate the OpenGL port during an August 7 press conference at SIGGRAPH '96 in New Orleans.

Currently the PLB is ported to PHIGS, PEXlib and vendors' proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs). Its availability under OpenGL will make the PLB accessible to a wider range of graphics users and vendors.

While acknowledging that all benchmarks are subject to biases, Bill Licea-Kane, developer of the OpenGL port, says that the port will "be subject to fewer biases than so-called 'PHIGS-like' graphics libraries to which the PLB is already ported."

With the addition of the OpenGL port, the PLB will be available as a graphics performance measurement tool across every major API.