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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: LigH on February 17, 2016, 08:02:31 am

Title: The Vulkan broke out
Post by: LigH on February 17, 2016, 08:02:31 am

Nvidia releases the Vulkan Graphics API and first drivers (http://go.nvidianews.com/O0P0TkEN0010MO6z0Q0EhxF)

It allows a more direct access to features of graphic chips than higher level APIs like DirectX or OpenGL with abstraction layers. Programmers using Vulkan are now responsible for implementing a logic to optimally use different features of different GPUs in their applications, instead of relying on graphic drivers having their own strategies to support a wide range of GPUs with the same abstract functions.

Vulkan driver downloads (https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver) — before you hurry: Do you have any applications designed for it already? ... Patience. For now only for Kepler and Maxwell chipsets (GT 600-900 and related Quadro)

AMD developed the Mantle API earlier, but discontinued it already and recommended to switch to either DirectX 12 or Vulkan (as a kind of successor).