This years GDC conference will have a very interesting Vulkan & DX12 talk from AMD

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) isn't too far away now, and a few more sessions are starting to appear. One in particular caught the interesting of a reader who sent it in, and now it's exciting me too.

The title of a particular talk from AMD is "D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned", now that's interesting by itself, but in the description they state this:

QuoteThe presentation will include useful insights gained while developing the first wave of Vulkan & DirectX®12 titles.

Either AMD have been working with a developer behind the scenes on a new game using Vulkan, or someone has been porting a title or two over to it ready for sometime this year. Either of those would be exciting, and it's really great that AMD is doing a talk on it. I hope Nvidia and Intel are also planning to get word out about what they have been doing for Vulkan some more too, but it's especially good to see AMD talking it up again.

If AMD's Vulkan driver works as good or better than Nvidia's then we will finally have more of a choice of who to go with, not that I'm going to be moving away from my Nvidia 980ti any time soon though. Competition is good and all that.

GDC starts on March 14th and runs until the the 18th, so it's not all that long until we get more details. We imagine more details will leak out before it too.

I'm starting to think Vulkan will be released alongside GDC (or very close to it) to enable developers to talk more openly about it like this.

Also, a gentle reminder, it's Vulkan, not Vulcan.

Thanks for the info Kallestofeles. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.