Silk.NET VS FNA

Compare Silk.NET vs FNA and see what are their differences.

Silk.NET

The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about. (by Ultz)

FNA

FNA - Accuracy-focused XNA4 reimplementation for open platforms (by FNA-XNA)
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Silk.NET FNA
35 86
3,663 2,513
4.0% 1.0%
5.2 8.5
3 days ago 12 days ago
C# C#
MIT License -
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Silk.NET

Posts with mentions or reviews of Silk.NET. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

FNA

Posts with mentions or reviews of FNA. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Silk.NET and FNA you can also consider the following projects:

OpenTK - The Open Toolkit library is a fast, low-level C# wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL & OpenCL. It also includes windowing, mouse, keyboard and joystick input and a robust and fast math library, giving you everything you need to write your own renderer or game engine. OpenTK can be used standalone or inside a GUI on Windows, Linux, Mac.

MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

Veldrid - A low-level, portable graphics library for .NET.

Battle-Cats-Save-File-Editor - Battle Cats Save File Editor made in C# that requires root/rooted emulator and a PC

Vortice.Windows - .NET bindings for Direct3D12, Direct3D11, WIC, Direct2D1, XInput, XAudio, X3DAudio, DXC, Direct3D9 and DirectInput.

Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)

SharpDX

Nez - Nez is a free 2D focused framework that works with MonoGame and FNA

Interactive Data Display for WPF - Interactive Data Display for WPF is a set of controls for adding interactive visualization of dynamic data to your application. It allows to create line graphs, bubble charts, heat maps and other complex 2D plots which are very common in scientific software. Interactive Data Display for WPF integrates well with Bing Maps control to show data on a geographic map in latitude/longitude coordinates. The controls can also be operated programmatically.

FNA3D - FNA3D - 3D Graphics Library for FNA

Win2D - Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration. It is available to C#, C++ and VB developers writing apps for the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). It utilizes the power of Direct2D, and integrates seamlessly with XAML and CoreWindow.

osu-framework - A game framework written with osu! in mind.