Khronos Group forges Vulkan 1.1
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Hot on the heels of the Khronos Group's announcement of Vulkan 1.0 tools for Apple's macOS and iOS comes the release of version 1.1 of the cross-platform, low-level graphics API. The new version adds 16-bit data type support and new Protected Content and Subgroup Operations functions, and it integrates capabilities previously found in extensions into the core of the API. Along with Vulkan 1.1 comes Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR-V) 1.3, an update to Khronos' binary intermediate languge for parallel compute and graphics.
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