At its WWDC keynote yesterday, Apple announced its own graphics API, codenamed Metal. According to the company's presentation, existing OpenGL ES frameworks have interposed too much overhead between ...

Google today announced that it will soon support the Khronos Group’s Vulkan graphics API on Android. The goal of Vulkan is very similar to that of Apple’s Metal API for iOS and OS X. Vulkan is a ...

While bringing its Metal API to OS X fits Apple's drive towards controlling the software stack, the company has a weak track record when it comes to delivering GPU feature updates and capabilities in ...

Apple caused a certain amount of disquiet in cross-platform development circles when it announced its Metal graphics API as part of iOS 8 in mid 2014. Now, however, balance has been bought back to the ...

Unity is adding support for Apple’s new graphics API Metal to its game engine. The tool is designed to offer developers a way of squeezing more power out of both the iPhone and iPad to add extra ...