Vulkan Alternatives
Vulkan is described as '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' and is a popular app in the Development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Vulkan for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and BSD. The best alternative is OpenGL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Vulkan are WebGL (Free, Open Source), SDL (Free, Open Source), Microsoft DirectX (Free) and Allegro (Free, Open Source).
- OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. View 10 alternatives to OpenGL
- Free • Open Source
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- Android
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- Haiku
- WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2. View 13 alternatives to WebGL
- Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video... View 20 alternatives to SDLNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
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SDL vs Vulkan
aaronfranke SDL handles everything (input, sound, files) and wraps around graphics APIs like Vulkan. Not the same thing. - Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft... View 12 alternatives to Microsoft DirectX
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Bundled with Bing Bar.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. View 25 alternatives to Allegro
- Multimedia JavaScript framework to create real cross-platform and hybrid game engines, games, emulators, multimedia libraries and apps. View 466 alternatives to CrossBrowdy
- OpenGL is a great environment for developing portable, platform independent, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. View 3 alternatives to ModernGL
- Metal provides near-direct access to the graphics processing unit (GPU), enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. View 10 alternatives to Metal
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. View 10 alternatives to Crystal Space
Discontinued
Discontinued since July 2012 : http://www.crystalspace3d.org/main/Download
- Free • Open Source
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