The Khronos Group has released a new version of Vulkan, featuring vendor-agnostic support for Ray Tracing. As such, developers using Vulkan 1.2.162 can enable Ray Tracing effects on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware. Continue reading Vulkan 1.2.162 released, adds universal Ray Tracing support for both NVIDIA and AMD
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The Khronos Group has publicly released OpenCL 3.0
The Khronos Group has publicly released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality to be broadly deployed by hardware vendors, and it significantly increases deployment flexibility by empowering conformant OpenCL implementations to focus on functionality relevant to their target markets. Continue reading The Khronos Group has publicly released OpenCL 3.0
The Khronos Group announces the public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions
The Khronos Group announced today the public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray. Continue reading The Khronos Group announces the public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions
Vulkan 1.2 is now available, improving GPU acceleration functionality and performance
The Khronos Group announced today the release of the Vulkan 1.2 specification for GPU acceleration. This release integrates 23 proven extensions into the core Vulkan API, bringing significant developer-requested access to new hardware functionality. This new version will also improve application performance, and will enhance API usability. Continue reading Vulkan 1.2 is now available, improving GPU acceleration functionality and performance
The Khronos Group announced the OpenXR 1.0 specifications for virtual and augmented reality
The Khronos Group announced today the ratification and public release of the OpenXR 1.0 specification together with publicly available implementations and substantial ecosystem momentum. OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance, cross-platform access to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)— collectively known as XR—platforms and devices. The new specification can be found on the Khronos website and via GitHub. Continue reading The Khronos Group announced the OpenXR 1.0 specifications for virtual and augmented reality
Vulkan 1.1 is now available to all developers, sporting developer-requested features
The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, announced today the release of the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications. Version 1.1 expands Vulkan’s core functionality with developer-requested features, such as subgroup operations, while integrating a wide range of proven extensions from Vulkan 1.0. Khronos will also release full Vulkan 1.1 conformance tests into open source and AMD, Arm, Imagination, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA and Qualcomm have implemented conformant Vulkan 1.1 drivers. Continue reading Vulkan 1.1 is now available to all developers, sporting developer-requested features
The Khronos Group: We’re not trying to combat Microsoft, “DX12 right commercial choice for some devs”
Vulkan and DX12 are the APIs that will drive most of the new games the next couple of years. And as we all know, Vulkan supports a wide range of hardware and operating systems, whereas DX12 does not. However, it appears that The Khronos Group – the team behind Vulkan – is not trying to fight Microsoft in order to “make” developers choose Vulkan over DX12. Continue reading The Khronos Group: We’re not trying to combat Microsoft, “DX12 right commercial choice for some devs”