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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After missing their goal of releasing the initial Vulkan API specifications by the end of 2015, the Khronos group has now completed the 1.0 release of the API. By now most of our readers are also ...

Bethesda has implemented the Vulkan API in DOOM on the PC. It says that its "big technology push" will bring higher framerates and therefore improved player movement and feel, to provide an "amazing" ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, low-overhead graphics APIs have become important inclusions in an operating system's makeup. Windows 10 includes perhaps the most important of all low-overhead APIs, DirectX ...

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 ...