--- title: Graphics offload continued | daily.dev description: GTK 4.16 brings expanded graphics offload support, building on the dmabuf work introduced in GTK 4.14. New improvements include passing transformed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/graphics-offload-continued-vkfi2g0vm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Graphics offload continued | daily.dev og:description: GTK 4.16 brings expanded graphics offload support, building on the dmabuf work introduced in GTK 4.14. New improvements include passing transformed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/graphics-offload-continued-vkfi2g0vm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VKfi2g0vm.png og:image:alt: Graphics offload continued og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Graphics offload continued **[GTK Development Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gtk-blog)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GTK 4.16 brings expanded graphics offload support, building on the dmabuf work introduced in GTK 4.14. New improvements include passing transformed (rotated/flipped) textures to the compositor during offload, and enabling offloading for GL textures by exporting them as dmabufs via Mesa GL extensions. Developers are advised to use specific GTK transformation methods like gsk_transform_rotate rather than raw matrix calls, so GTK can classify and optimize transformations. These changes mean graphics offloading will work in significantly more scenarios in the upcoming release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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