khronos

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The Khronos Group is an open industry consortium that develops royalty-free, cross-platform graphics and compute standards. On WindowsForum.com, discussions focus on Vulkan, a high-efficiency API launched by Khronos in 2016 that provides low-overhead access to modern GPUs across PCs, consoles, and mobile devices. Topics include Vulkan's advantages over older APIs like OpenGL, its role in gaming and high-performance computing, and its adoption by hardware vendors and developers. The tag covers announcements, technical details, and comparisons with competing APIs such as DirectX 12, reflecting Khronos's impact on Windows graphics and gaming.

  1. Introduction to Vulkan: High-Efficiency Graphics API for Modern GPUs

    Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms. Vulkan - Industry Forged Tech demos: Vulkan on Android Drivers: Nvidia Vulkan...
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  2. Attention Linux gamers: Valve, Khronos to reveal next-gen OpenGL successor at GDC

    It's a great time to be alive if you're a fanatic about the particulars of various performance-boosting graphics APIs. AMD's Mantle is here , Microsoft's DirectX 12 is coming with Windows 10 , and at GDC in early March we'll hear the first news about a successor to the open-source...
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