While Microsoft's DirectX 12 may have been the first low-level API to appear on PC (excepting AMD's proprietary Mantle API), its arch-rival Vulkan is potentially more interesting. Vulkan promises to ...

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 discrete ...

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 ...

DirectX 12 isn’t the only graphics API seeing delays, as the Vulkan Working Group recently announced that the open-standard successor to OpenGL won’t hit its end of the year release target. Vulkan, ...

id Software’s new Doom now supports the Vulkan graphics API on Windows PC, which can mean a pretty big boost to the game’s max frame rate, if your graphics card supports it. Support for Vulkan was ...

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are the world’s first Android smartphones to support the new Vulkan API unveiled in 2015 and released in February 2016. The Vulkan API is considered the ...

When Vulkan first hit the scene back in 2015, it was all over the place in terms of hardware and software support. Now that more parties have begun implementing and using it, however, things are ...

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, has announced availability of the Vulkan 1.0 royalty-free, open standard API specification. It’s designed to provide ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. So what does Vulkan mean for you? As far as Doom is concerned, your game will perform at a higher ...

The 30th Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2016 will take place from Monday 14th March to Friday 18th March and the schedule of sessions and events is now available for interested parties to ...

During the Nvidia editors event some content was shown, the video above is Doom running the Vulkan API with the all new GeForce GTX 1080. Be warned the video is a camera phone recording, shaky-cam and ...