Games on devices of all kinds could soon be running better because Vulkan, the successor to OpenGL, has finally been released officially. The new standard gives developers low-level access to ...

In today's open source roundup: Vulkan is the next generation successor to openGL. Plus: Korora 21 reviews, and Worms Clan Wars available on Linux.

One big question for Vulkan is it's backwards compatibility story -- can OpenCL and OpenGL be implemented as a layer on top of it?

That name is “ Vulkan ” and the new open source 2D and 3D graphics API will expand the portfolio of OpenGL to mobile platforms.

It's been a long and somewhat bumpy road to 1.0 release for the Vulkan API. After changing its name from GL Next and missing its initial launch window in 2015, Vulkan has arrived. The API's based ...

After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification, the next-generation version of OpenGL. Initially based on AMD's ...

A developer named Brais Solla has recently added support for two "new" OpenGL features for graphics cards based on the R300 series, a GPU architecture first ...

Intel showcased the benefits of the Vulkan API during SIGGRAPH 2015 and exemplified its viability as a mainstream alternative to OpenGL. The Stardust graphics demonstration was conducted on an ...

There's still the possibility that AMD helped id Software optimize for Vulkan more/better than Nvidia did, but I think it's equally likely that Nvidia's DX11 and OpenGL drivers are simply really ...

Nvidia's improved support for Vulkan and OpenGL meanwhile means users of the company's GPUs won't miss out on certain functionality, regardless of a game's choice of API.

AMD’s Robert Hallock confirmed on a blog post that Mantle had, for the most part, been turned into the Khronos Group’s Vulkan API that would supersede OpenGL.

Requiring less work to port from the previous OpenGL API standard, the Khronos Group's Vulkan could finally give Microsoft's DirectX a run for its money.