Minecraft is Moving From OpenGL to Vulkan: What Does This Mean for Players?

Check out this article to learn all about Minecraft moving its graphics API from OpenGL to Vulkan and what is it in for the ...
PC World

Intel adds Vulkan 1.0 support to Windows PC chips for gaming

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Vulkan SDK, Tools and Drivers are Ray Tracing Ready

Beaverton, OR – December 16, 2020 – Today, The Khronos® Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces that LunarG has released the ...
Guru3D.com

New Patch Brings Vulkan support to Doom + Benchmarks

Bethesda sends word that this Monday Vulkan a patch for Doom for PC was released. The low-level Vulkan-api has been adeed and should bring higher frame rates compared to the OpenGL API. After getting ...
VentureBeat

Vulkan gets tools, drivers to bring ray tracing to PS5, Xbox, and AMD

The next generation of real-time visuals is ray tracing, and developers can now turn to the open Vulkan graphics API to bring this tech into their games. The Khronos Group consortium announced today ...
PC World

Valve’s SteamOS now supports Vulkan, the cross-platform alternative to DirectX 12

As usual, Nvidia offers the best graphics drivers for Linux gaming. That’s why I advise everyone interested in Steam machines to choose hardware with Nvidia graphics, not an AMD graphics processor.
Guru3D.com

NVIDIA blogs about Vulkan - will support Kepler and Maxwell GPUs

Nvidia as well posted a thing or two today on Vulkan. Their GeForce GTX graphics cards based on Kepler and Maxwell will get support for the API. Vulkan GPU based hardware acceleration will be ...
PCGamesN

Vulkan, OpenGL's next-gen offspring, is now live and supported by AMD and NVIDIA cards

It's been a long and somewhat bumpy road to 1.0 release for the Vulkan API. After changing its name from GL Next and missing its initial launch window in 2015, Vulkan has arrived. The API's based ...
ZDNet

Raspberry Pi 400, Pi 4 pass key Vulkan test: It's a 'major milestone' for better graphics

The Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and the Compute Module 4 have passed a key test to get Vulkan support, which will eventually give developers better access to the computers' Broadcom VideoCore ...
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 ...
PCGamesN

AMD's Radeon graphics driver update is all about the Vulkan. Live long and prosper

AMD's new Radeon Adrenalin driver is focusing on added Vulkan support with a particular emphasis on its high dynamic range (HDR) support and FreeSync 2 HDR. The company has long teased that we would ...