This chapter will start off with an introduction of Vulkan and the problems it addresses. After that, we’re going to look at the ingredients that are required for the first triangle. This will give ...

Vulkan™ is the new generation, open standard API for high-efficiency access to graphics and compute on modern GPUs. This API is designed from the ground up to provide applications direct control over ...

In brief: Vulkan has become a strong and popular contender to Microsoft's DirectX 12 graphics API. It's favored by developers (and even players, such as myself) for its superior performance (when well ...

It's been some 18 months since Khronos announced the next-generation of OpenGL, and the final version of the spec, Vulkan, is finally ready for deployment. As of today, everything related to Vulkan -- ...

After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification, the next-generation version of OpenGL. Initially based on AMD’s ...

OpenGL's successor graphic API "VulkanAbout Khronos Group "Vulkan 1.0"Formally formulated. As a low level API, benchmark tests have been performed on Vulkan, which is expected because DirectX 12 or ...

Most modern Android smartphones support Vulkan, a superior graphics API that outperforms the older OpenGL standard. Despite this hardware capability, many devices still default to OpenGL, leaving ...

Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

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 ...

The new MoltenVK developer API aims to ease porting of games to Apple hardware, and its native support of Metal graphics, by by bringing the cross-platform Vulkan 3D graphics API to both iOS and macOS ...

Dependency and lifetime design validation at compile time All-in-one: Generated from the Vulkan spec directly, optional loader included. Pluggable: Consumes native API types for easy integration. Use ...

API, for those who are stumped by the word means Application programming interface. For those who weren’t stumped by the word, well, kudos to you. The official jargon defines it as a set of subroutine ...