Windows games have mostly been defined by DirectX 12 tools, but a competitive API is coming to PCs running on Intel chips. Intel is releasing graphics drivers that support the Vulkan 1.0 API for chips ...

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 ...

If you play Rainbow Six Siege on PC, you might have heard a lot about Vulkan API recently. Alongside Siege’s most recent balancing patch came public testing for a version of the game running on Vulkan ...

OpenGL has always been the standard graphics API used in Android, but now that the Khronos Group announed Vulkan, that may change. Vulkan is not set to replace OpenGL, at least not right away, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is Vulkan? Details on the Vulkan SC safety-critical standard. How much do Vulkan and the variant Vulkan SC differ? March 1, 2022 marked a pivotal day in the world of safety systems: The Khronos ...

There's no need for Nvidia's handy Vulkan extension any longer... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today marks the moment the ...

An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols, and tools that are used for building software. Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a ...