The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1, the first big revision of its vendor-neutral, cross-platform GPU API. The new revision standardizes a handful of features that were previously offered as ...

If you've been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, you will have seen the option for either the Vulkan or DX12 API. In this video, we see which performs best when using a rtx 2070 Super and rx 5700 ...

While Microsoft's DirectX 12 may have been the first low-level API to appear on PC (excepting AMD's proprietary Mantle API), its arch-rival Vulkan is potentially more interesting. Vulkan promises to ...

In a forum post over on the programming forums for Star Citizen, director of graphics engineering Ali Brown has announced that Star Citizen will now use Khronos' Vulkan API, rather than switching to ...

Psst: the games you play might not look as good (or run as smoothly) as they could. In many cases, the overhead from graphics standards gets in the way -- Apple went so far as to develop its own ...

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 ...

Khronos Group, an open consortium of tech companies focused on interoperability standards, has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4. It’s the latest version of its royalty-free, cross-platform 3D ...

Valheim's bosses aren't the only thing to get a buff in the Viking game's latest update, as the introduction of Vulkan support for Windows players means your gaming PC might see a boost in performance ...

With more integrated core functions, profiles for vendors, and a sturdier roadmap, the Vulkan API will only get better. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

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