AMD’s Mantle 1.0 is indeed dead, but like a Jedi, it looks to have risen in the form of the Kronos Group’s new open standard, cross-platform Vulkan API (but without Obi Wan’s weird blue glow). As I ...

[url=http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29539565#p29539565:2djbhgpk said: eMagius[/url]":2djbhgpk]Vulcan is so far from an implementable standard right now ...

Doom, the very first one, was widely regarded to have pushed the boundaries of PC gaming and graphics of that era, with its 3D graphics, 3D maps, networked multiplayer, and mature rating. Ever since ...

Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you’re the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal last year, and OS X El Capitan will bring the ...

The Vulkan 1.3 specification was released today, incorporating and mandating proven, developer-requested extensions to make that functionality consistently available across all supported platforms.

DOOM developers id Software have announced that Vulkan API support is now live for the recently released game. Ultimately, support for the graphics API should lead to higher framerates, making the ...