Dolphin GameCube/Wii Emulator Lands Its Vulkan Backend

[geearf]

This. Dolphin is a excellent test subject for Vulkan vs OpenGL performance IMO.

From what I've read so far, it seems Dolphin's graphical paradigm does not benefit much from Vulkan or DX12 in theory.
But in practice, these newer backends are better for various reasons (that should be backported to older DX and OGL, or the common parts) and the drivers are better too, especially for AMD.

[Awesomeness]

Damn these guys aren't kidding around implementing it this fast.

Dolphin Emu in general is a showcase for a great open source project. Just look at their awesome monthly progress reports: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/10...eptember-2016/

[lucrus]

There is no Vulkan on OSX. Apple instead went with their own API.

As usual.