diff --git a/common/SConscript b/common/SConscript
index ebc0ec79e9..8aee6f42a7 100644
--- a/common/SConscript
+++ b/common/SConscript
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ _common = fxn('common', common_libs, LIBS="json11")
 
 files = [
   'clutil.cc',
-  'visionimg.cc',
 ]
 
 _gpucommon = fxn('gpucommon', files)
diff --git a/common/visionimg.cc b/common/visionimg.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index 1009767e0d..0000000000
--- a/common/visionimg.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#include "common/visionimg.h"
-
-#include <cassert>
-
-EGLImageTexture::EGLImageTexture(const VisionBuf *buf) {
-  glGenTextures(1, &frame_tex);
-  glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, frame_tex);
-  glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, buf->width, buf->height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, nullptr);
-  glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
-}
-
-EGLImageTexture::~EGLImageTexture() {
-  glDeleteTextures(1, &frame_tex);
-}
diff --git a/common/visionimg.h b/common/visionimg.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 0cb41a32b8..0000000000
--- a/common/visionimg.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include "cereal/visionipc/visionbuf.h"
-
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-#include <OpenGL/gl3.h>
-#else
-#include <GLES3/gl3.h>
-#endif
-
-class EGLImageTexture {
- public:
-  EGLImageTexture(const VisionBuf *buf);
-  ~EGLImageTexture();
-  GLuint frame_tex = 0;
-};
diff --git a/release/files_common b/release/files_common
index 982194d774..974ea27711 100644
--- a/release/files_common
+++ b/release/files_common
@@ -146,15 +146,11 @@ common/modeldata.h
 common/mat.h
 common/timing.h
 
-common/visionimg.cc
-common/visionimg.h
-
 common/gpio.cc
 common/gpio.h
 common/i2c.cc
 common/i2c.h
 
-
 selfdrive/controls/__init__.py
 selfdrive/controls/controlsd.py
 selfdrive/controls/plannerd.py
diff --git a/selfdrive/camerad/cameras/camera_common.h b/selfdrive/camerad/cameras/camera_common.h
index 85c55f4b03..74d6a6eb3f 100644
--- a/selfdrive/camerad/cameras/camera_common.h
+++ b/selfdrive/camerad/cameras/camera_common.h
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 #include "common/mat.h"
 #include "common/queue.h"
 #include "common/swaglog.h"
-#include "common/visionimg.h"
 #include "selfdrive/hardware/hw.h"
 
 #define CAMERA_ID_IMX298 0
diff --git a/selfdrive/ui/SConscript b/selfdrive/ui/SConscript
index 6b9db34b4d..47c4ac2a51 100644
--- a/selfdrive/ui/SConscript
+++ b/selfdrive/ui/SConscript
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import os
-Import('qt_env', 'arch', 'common', 'messaging', 'gpucommon', 'visionipc',
+Import('qt_env', 'arch', 'common', 'messaging', 'visionipc',
        'cereal', 'transformations')
 
-base_libs = [gpucommon, common, messaging, cereal, visionipc, transformations, 'zmq',
+base_libs = [common, messaging, cereal, visionipc, transformations, 'zmq',
              'capnp', 'kj', 'm', 'OpenCL', 'ssl', 'crypto', 'pthread'] + qt_env["LIBS"]
 
 maps = arch in ['larch64', 'x86_64']