Vulkan 1.0 erupts with a hard launch
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The Khronos Group released version 1.0 of its Vulkan graphics API this morning. This release is a hard launch, meaning that the Vulkan specification, conformance tests, SDKs, and other resources are available immediately for developers who want to play with the new API. AMD has a beta Windows driver with Vulkan support available for its graphics cards, and Nvidia has also posted a compatible beta driver on its Vulkan portal.
Vulkan is the Khronos Group's take on the low-overhead graphics API movement that AMD more or less kicked off with its Mantle API back in 2013. (Vulkan is based ...