• Vulkan is a low-level, low-overhead cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of...
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    It can be compared to low-level APIs on other platforms such as Vulkan and DirectX 12. Metal is an object-oriented API that can be invoked using the Swift...
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    While the API was officially discontinued, Clément Guérin started a Mantle to Vulkan translation layer called GRVK in mid 2020. This allows the API and ultimately...
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  • with only a driver update.[citation needed] API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all GCN architecture cards. Vulkan 1.2 requires GCN 2nd gen or higher with the...
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  • operations), so long as the non-overlapping assumption is respected. The Vulkan API provides the intermediate SPIR-V representation to describe both Graphical...
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    utilized in other Vega product lines. Vulkan 1.2 is supported with Adrenalin 20.1.2 and Linux Mesa3D 20.0.0. Vulkan 1.3 is supported with Adrenalin 22.1...
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  • the Mantle API and Vulkan API OpenGL 4.5 support for TeraScale 2 with AMD Crimson Beta (driver version 15.30 or higher) OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan 1.0 support...
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    OpenGL (category 3D graphics APIs)
    core profile. Active development of OpenGL was dropped in favor of the Vulkan API, released in 2016, and codenamed glNext during initial development. In...
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  • Mesa (computer graphics) (category Rendering APIs available on Linux)
    Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific...
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    GPUs. Vulkan 1.0 requires GCN-Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 requires actual 2nd Gen. of GCN or higher (here only HD 7790). On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on...
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