Vulkan API

[Bullit]

https://developer.nvidia.com/engaging-voyage-vulkan

Anyone with more knowledge can say what improvements this will bring for us.

That will be good i think for everyone to plan the time to upgrade hardware.

[Bullit]

Released

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/


https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khro ... cification


The promoters list many big names AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Adobe, Epic Games, Google, Samsung, Maxon etc etc but Autodesk seems not interested.
https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/ ... _Feb16.pdf

Quick reference guide
https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan ... .0-web.pdf



For Nvidia these are the compatible cards at the moment.

Windows driver version 356.39 and Linux driver version 355.00.26 provide beta support for Vulkan.
Vulkan Beta Driver Release Notes

You will need any one of the following Kepler or Maxwell (both first and second generation Maxwell) based GPUs to get access to Vulkan functionality:
Quadro Series: Quadro M6000, Quadro M5000, Quadro M4000, Quadro K6000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K2200, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D, Quadro K1200, Quadro K620, Quadro K420
Quadro Series (Notebooks): Quadro K5100M, Quadro K5000M, Quadro K4100M, Quadro K4000M, Quadro K3100M, Quadro K2200M, Quadro K2100M, Quadro K3000M, Quadro K2000M, Quadro K1100M, Quadro K1000M, Quadro K620M, Quadro K610M, Quadro K510M, Quadro K500M
GeForce 900 Series: GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950
GeForce 700 Series: GeForce GTX TITAN Z, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705
GeForce 600 Series: GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 630

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver

Demos
https://developer.nvidia.com/Vulkan


PS: of note it seems they don't support notebooks which if it will remain is a big deal.