https://www.khronos.org/vulkan
https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/overview/2015_vulkan_v1_Overview.pdf
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/03/khronos-unveils-vulkan-opengl-built-for-modern-systems/
Vulkan is Next-Gen OpenGL
This blog of Imagination Technologies gives out more details than Khronos announcement btw: http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/trying-out-the-new-vulkan-graphics-api-on-powervr-gpus
https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/overview/2015_vulkan_v1_Overview.pdf
Everything in there is good. Praise Gaben!
This is exactly what we were asking for, Khronos!
BTW, this paves the way for a true HLSL->SPIR-V compiler, evntually allowing people to use their existing source files 
Yeah, as I said in the other thread, it seems sane... a Khronos take on the Mantle API.
Interested to see the complete model; do we get separate command queues for graphics and compute? (based on the ImgTec blog this looks to be the case!) how does it deal with multiple gpu machine? what about upload/download control?
But on the face of it things look sane... which I still find confusing...
Interested to see the complete model; do we get separate command queues for graphics and compute? (based on the ImgTec blog this looks to be the case!) how does it deal with multiple gpu machine? what about upload/download control?
But on the face of it things look sane... which I still find confusing...
BTW, this paves the way for a true HLSL->SPIR-V compiler, evntually allowing people to use their existing source filesvec4 master race represent!
Will work on any platform that supports OpenGL ES 3.1 and up
Now THAT is exciting news.
EDIT: Maybe I spoke too soon, AMD doesn't support it then? Weird.
ES3.1 is just a target hardware level; AMD just don't have a driver for it is all and ES is used because Mobile.
AMD's hardware will support this, likely anything which can support GL3.3 (which is roughly where ES3.1 is) has the ability to support this API which means basically all hardware in the wild today on the desktop. (driver allowing.)
AMD's hardware will support this, likely anything which can support GL3.3 (which is roughly where ES3.1 is) has the ability to support this API which means basically all hardware in the wild today on the desktop. (driver allowing.)
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