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 Vulkan API is widely regarded as the successor to OpenGL. Initially announced in 2015, the Vulkan Graphics API has provided significant improvements in graphics rendering performance compared to ...

NVIDIA has announced that they will not offer Vulkan API support for Fermi based graphics cards. The NVIDIA Fermi GPUs were launched back in 2010 and NVIDIA has decided that they will not be reviving ...

Vulkan is a new 3D graphics API from the makers of OpenGL. It’s an open standard that the developers at Khronos say will be more efficient than OpenGL, and it will also give developers more control ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Khronos Group, the company behind the Vulkan application programming interface (API), announced today that it now supports ray tracing, the buzzword friendly feature Nvidia pushed and console makers ...

Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies dedicated to creating advanced interoperability standards, has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4, the latest version of its ...

The Vulkan 1.3 specification was released today, incorporating and mandating proven, developer-requested extensions to make that functionality consistently available across all supported platforms.

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 ...

Changes to the Android Open Source Project show that Vulkan 1.1 is coming. The new update doesn’t have many user-facing features, focusing on a few under-the-hood changes. Mobile silicon leaders Arm ...