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    FYI: Nvidia Now Supports Vulcan

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Anna@CUK, Mar 11, 2016.

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    Nvidia freshly released a WHQL-certified driver pack intended for GeForce graphics cards, bringing support for the Vulkan API nearly a month after the Khronos Group unleashed its OpenGL successor unto the world. Similar to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 alternative, Vulkan boasts less driver overhead as well as a ‘closer to the metal’ relationship to the GPU. As a result, it’s considered an improvement over both AMD’s Mantle API and OpenGL.

    Though there aren’t many games or apps that actually support the 1.0.3.0 Vulkan kernel featured in Nvidia’s GeForce 364.47 driver, it’s been added as feature Nvidia hopes developers will inevitably take advantage of. Nonetheless, Nvidia has positioned itself advantageously against the competition as a result of being the first company to support both DirectX 12 and Vulkan in a complete, non-beta state.

    Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...-12-and-vulkan-outside-of-beta/#ixzz42dBEhA66
     
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