Gnomes per second Vulkan demo by Imagination (contrasting with OpenGL ES):
http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/gnomes-per-second-in-vulkan-and-opengl-es
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Quite a bit of interesting plans for Vulkan were published on Siggraph. Especially exciting is official announcement of WSI support in Wayland.
http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/gnomes-per-second-in-vulkan-and-opengl-es
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Quite a bit of interesting plans for Vulkan were published on Siggraph. Especially exciting is official announcement of WSI support in Wayland.
Live stream on Vulkan from Siggraph: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/khronos-siggraph
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Some slides about WSI and Wayland integration:
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Full video is available here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406
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Some slides about WSI and Wayland integration:
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Full video is available here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/70729406
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Slides from Siggraph course "An overview of next generation graphics APIs": http://nextgenapis.realtimerendering.com
A major update form AMD (slides from XDC2015) about their plans for Vulkan: http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2015/Program/deucher_zhou_amdgpu.pdf
I surely hope MS or any other such Qualcomm won't mess up things before AMD will keep their promise of open sourcing their stack.
I surely hope MS or any other such Qualcomm won't mess up things before AMD will keep their promise of open sourcing their stack.
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Presentation from AMD at XDC2015 (about their plans for Vulkan and Linux driver):
They are going to open source their driver - great news!
It sounds like my future GPU can be AMD if they'll manage to bring power consumption down. I'd gladly get rid of Nvidia's blob if AMD card will work well.
They are going to open source their driver - great news!
It sounds like my future GPU can be AMD if they'll manage to bring power consumption down. I'd gladly get rid of Nvidia's blob if AMD card will work well.
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Hm, looks promising: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9621/the-amd-radeon-r9-nano-review
But it's not competing with full blown card, because clock speed is limited there:
I'd wait until they'll switch the chip to 14nm manufacturing or less which can produce real high end cards with lower power consumption.
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Yeah, it's a very nice card, but mostly for tech enthusiasts or people who want to build the fastest smallest PC and for whom money isn't an issue.
Neil Trevett, President of the Khronos Group gives a talk at Linaro Conference: "Open Standards and Open Source Together" (starts at 12:45).
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Nintendo joined Khronos Group as a contributor: http://wiiudaily.com/2015/09/nintendo-joins-open-standards-alliance-khronos-group/
Smart move for them (and not smart for MS not do it). So may be we'll see Vulkan on Nintendo consoles.
Smart move for them (and not smart for MS not do it). So may be we'll see Vulkan on Nintendo consoles.
More talks on Vulkan from Siggraph 2015:
Tom Olson: "Vulkan Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNsdYfWXfM&t=55m20s
Dan Ginsburg (Valve): "Vulkan Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNsdYfWXfM&t=1h40m50s
Tom Olson: "Vulkan Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNsdYfWXfM&t=55m20s
Dan Ginsburg (Valve): "Vulkan Update": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quNsdYfWXfM&t=1h40m50s
Good for them. Why should they bother doing double work if they can avoid it? Eventually I expect more and more developers ending up doing the same. The key thing here are the tools. If Glave debugger and other Vulkan tools will be top notch - developers will start ditching DX more and more. I really hope it will snowball eventually to the point of Apple and Sony having no choice but to support Vulkan as well.
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Imagination will give a series of in-depth webinars about Vulkan: http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/5-new-webinars-on-the-vulkan-api
Subjects:
* One API for all platforms
* High efficiency on mobile
* Scaling to multiple threads
* Explicit operation and consistent frame times
* Architecture positive: how the Vulkan API works for PowerVR GPUs
Subjects:
* One API for all platforms
* High efficiency on mobile
* Scaling to multiple threads
* Explicit operation and consistent frame times
* Architecture positive: how the Vulkan API works for PowerVR GPUs
Valve has been looking into Vulkan to implement in Dota 2. I've seen some demo's and it's pretty crazy, the game can run at good fps on potato cpu's like pentiums.
I hope CDPR will develop Vulkan backend for REDengine. Witcher 3 can benefit from performance boost and portability.