I see, thanks. I presume the end-user running the application will need to have up-to-date drivers to take advantage of these changes in the past 4 years?
For the most part, yes. It is possible to do runtime detection of these features and have compatibility paths, but that further adds to the burden of what's required of tooling and infrastructure. Depending on exactly what you're doing, it's probably best to assume recent drivers. For this type of application (a renderer for a creative app on desktop), I think it's a perfectly reasonable requirement.
