Ars Technica

Vulkan benchmarks: A boost for AMD and Nvidia, but there’s work to be done

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 ...
Ars Technica

Vulkan is coming to macOS and iOS, but no thanks to Apple

Vulkan—the open, cross-platform GPU API from the Khronos Group, the industry body that also develops OpenGL—is available on Windows, Linux, Android, the Nintendo Switch, and cloud systems, but it has ...
PC World

Mantle is a Vulkan: AMD’s dead graphics API rises from the ashes in OpenGL’s successor

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 ...
PC World

Vulkan ray tracing support is finally official, starting with Quake II RTX

After a slow start, ray tracing continues to spread its wings. What started as a geeky Windows 10 feature now finds a home in the next-gen Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles as well, and on ...