For those wanting to listen to the actual talk Jason Ekstrand from Intel did about Vulkan you can now watch the video.
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Thanks to lucinos in the forum for pointing it out. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteVulkan is the new next-generation graphics API from Khronos that is meant to replace OpenGL for many high-performance graphics applications. The talk will focus on three main topics: The Vulkan API itself, the impact of of the Vulkan API on open-source software including both open-source applications and running closed-source applications on open-source operating systems, and support of Vulkan APIs in open-source drivers on Intel platforms.
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Thanks to lucinos in the forum for pointing it out. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Less talk about vulkan and more games using it!
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that makes a lot more sense now, so Vulkan can use multiple different types of drivers at the same time without any extra overhead like it is for bumblebee. that's going to be a big deal with laptops and could be a big benefit to desktops as well, because in fact we will be able to use multiple GPUs from different manufacturers at the same time.
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wvstolzing Feb 11, 2016
Quoting: tony1abLess talk about vulkan and more games using it!
Patience, young one!
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It'd be really interesting to see Developers aiming Win7 users having to use Vulkan in order to provide features that M$ would only release with DX12/Windows 10.
How cool would that be? Vulkan would be interesting cause all win7 users would still be using DX11 and locked with it.
Unfortunately M$ is already doing everything on their power to make ppl switch by force... so maybe this won't matter.
Here's the statistics right now ( http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/ )
Win10 looks fine, BUT there's still ~65% of the market without DX12. Which I guess is awesome to us.
Last edited by amonobeax on 11 February 2016 at 6:19 pm UTC
How cool would that be? Vulkan would be interesting cause all win7 users would still be using DX11 and locked with it.
Unfortunately M$ is already doing everything on their power to make ppl switch by force... so maybe this won't matter.
Here's the statistics right now ( http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/ )
Win10 looks fine, BUT there's still ~65% of the market without DX12. Which I guess is awesome to us.
Last edited by amonobeax on 11 February 2016 at 6:19 pm UTC
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On steam, Windows 10 is around 36% of Windows userbase:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc
On steam, Windows 10 is around 36% of Windows userbase:
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc
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This actually depressed me. Everything concrete is NDA'd, they keep shuffling their feet regarding any dates. There will hardly be any usable tools ready on launch. Apple's stance and support is unknown(?).
So as I see it, Vulkan will be viable for games only in ~2018 and the question still remains how attractive and competitive it will be compared to other APIs that are more established and available today: DX11, DX12 and even OpenGL. Mobile aside, why choose Vulkan if it can't even do OS X?
So as I see it, Vulkan will be viable for games only in ~2018 and the question still remains how attractive and competitive it will be compared to other APIs that are more established and available today: DX11, DX12 and even OpenGL. Mobile aside, why choose Vulkan if it can't even do OS X?
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