Difference between surface and texture (SDL / general)

Question

Can anyone explain to me in simple words what is the difference between texture and surface? I saw it used in SDL2 as SDL_Surface and SDL_Tex

Answer 1

There is more information about that in:

https://thenumbat.github.io/cpp-course/sdl2/05/05.html

As mentioned in the last lesson, textures are the GPU rendering equivalent of surfaces. Hence, textures are almost always created from surfaces, using the function SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(). This function more or less does what you'd expect—the parameters are the rendering context and a surface to create the texture from. As with other creation functions, it will return NULL on failure.

I hope it helps you!