2011 Khronos Group
max 3G
max return the greater of two values

## Declaration

genType `max` genType x genType y genType `max` genType x float y genDType `max` genDType x genDType y genDType `max` genDType x double y genIType `max` genIType x genIType y genIType `max` genIType x int y genUType `max` genUType x genUType y genUType `max` genUType x uint y

## Parameters

x

  Specify the first value to compare.

y

  Specify the second value to compare.

## Description

`max` returns the maximum of the two parameters. It returns y if y is greater than x, otherwise it returns x.

## Version Support

#VARTABLECOLS#
#FUNCTABLEHEADER#
max (genType)#newin11#
max (genIType)#newin13#
max (genUType)#newin13#
max (genDType)#newin40#

## See Also

min, abs

## Copyright

Copyright 2011 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.