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Vulkan

Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform... Created by Khronos Group

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Vulkan is the result of 18 months in an intense collaboration between leading hardware, game engine and platform vendors, built on significant contributions from multiple Khronos members. Vulkan is designed for portability across multiple platforms with desktop and mobile GPU architectures. Vulkan is available on multiple versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and has been adopted as a native rendering and compute API by platforms including Linux, SteamOS, Tizen and Android.

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Vulkan was added by sgnl05 in Feb 2016 and the latest update was made in Dec 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2017. It's possible to update the information on Vulkan or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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