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Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12

Posted by timothy on from the cross-platform-good dept.

Phopojijo writes The Khronos Group has announced the Vulkan API for compute and graphics. Its goal is to compete against DirectX 12. It has some interesting features, such as queuing to multiple GPUs and an LLVM-based bytecode for its shading language to remove the need for a compiler from the graphics drivers. Also, the API allows graphics card vendors to support Vulkan with drivers back to Windows XP "and beyond."

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  1. Re:Boy you know you're old by MrL0G1C · · Score: 3, Informative

    DirectX 12 isn't out yet and appears to be a Windows 10 only thing. Quick check shows windows 7 has DX11. I'm assuming you know what DirectX is ;-)

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    http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

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  2. OpenGL? by MrL0G1C · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK so I decided to break with protocol and RTFA. Vulkan is what the makers see as being the next generation of OpenGL and it is backed by Valve for obvious reasons. It is aimed at a wider range of device types.

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    1. Re:OpenGL? by Megol · · Score: 3, Informative

      And AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Samsung, EA, Apple, ...