It's been a long and somewhat bumpy road to 1.0 release for the Vulkan API. After changing its name from GL Next and missing its initial launch window in 2015, Vulkan has arrived. The API's based ...

When Vulkan first hit the scene back in 2015, it was all over the place in terms of hardware and software support. Now that more parties have begun implementing and using it, however, things are ...

Gamers soon won't need dual water-cooled Tegra K1 Dual Denver cores to flawlessly run mobile games, if the evolution of OpenGL, now known as Vulkan, lives up to its promise. Gaming graphics in general ...

Intel showcased the benefits of the Vulkan API during SIGGRAPH 2015 and exemplified its viability as a mainstream alternative to OpenGL. The Stardust graphics demonstration was conducted on an Intel ...

Intel demonstrated the capabilities of the Vulkan API at the recent SIGGRAPH 2015 event. This weekend it made a video available featuring its Stardust graphics demo running on a Windows machine ...

Throughout the past few weeks, I’ve received some passionate pleas from hardware fans wanting me to include Doom Vulkan testing and conduct a performance analysis. Of course, I understand the reason ...

A successor to OpenGL, the open source graphics library that stands as a direct rival to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 library and Apple’s Metal, has been named by The Khronos Group, a consortium of schools ...

Khronos Group, an open consortium of hardware and software companies, has officially taken the wraps off Vulkan, previously referred to as the Next Generation OpenGL or glNext. Built for modern ...

The Khronos Group announced today Vulkan, its next generation API for high performance 3D graphics and GPU-based computation. Vulkan, previously known as Next Generation OpenGL or just GLnext, is ...

One of the biggest expected announcements at SIGGRAPH(Opens in a new window) this week has been delayed: The Kronos Group has yet to release its Vulkan API. Fortunately, Imagination Technologies has ...

In today's open source roundup: Vulkan is the next generation successor to openGL. Plus: Korora 21 reviews, and Worms Clan Wars available on Linux A next generation successor to openGL named Vulkan ...

AMD’s Mantle 1.0 is indeed dead, but like a Jedi, it looks to have risen in the form of the Kronos Group’s new open standard, cross-platform Vulkan API (but without Obi Wan’s weird blue glow). As I ...