Vulkan 1.0 is finally out, with Khronos' first ever "hard release." The new API will be supported by most of the industry, including Qualcomm, Imagination Technologies, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia.

Vulkan and DirectX 12 reduce that overhead, which means more objects, textures and effects can be drawn to the screen. The 3DMark API Overhead feature test measures API performance by making a ...

HIGHLIGHTS You've probably seen DOOM being demoed on the GTX 1080 using Vulkan API, here's what's great about it. Arnab Mukherjee 16-May-2016 ...

The demo ran about 25fps using this configuration. Next the demo was switched, on the same machine, to run the Vulkan API. The frame rate counter (bottom left of screen), rose to about 50fps.

The current plan is for Star Citizen to only support Vulkan, with DX11 support slowly being phased out as the team switch to the new API. This API change should not affect any backers that are ...