MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS

The open-source MoltenVK portability layer has already been providing Vulkan support on Apple iOS and macOS by re-mapping the Vulkan API to Apple's Metal graphics framework. With today's upate, Vulkan has now come to tvOS as well...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MoltenVK-Update-Adds-tvOS

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Phoronix: MoltenVK Update Brings Vulkan To Apple's tvOS

The open-source MoltenVK portability layer has already been providing Vulkan support on Apple iOS and macOS by re-mapping the Vulkan API to Apple's Metal graphics framework. With today's upate, Vulkan has now come to tvOS as well...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...date-Adds-tvOS

[Steffo]

Are there any benchmarks how this compare to native Metal?

[Danny3]

MoltenVK looks to me like the Nouveau project.
A lot of work wasted to support the users who continue to buy crap hardware.
I would never waste my time to support people who want to be slaves.
If they want OpenGL / Vulkan, they should ask their masters to whom they give huge amounts of money.

[tildearrow]

MoltenVK looks to me like the Nouveau project.
A lot of work wasted to support the users who continue to buy crap hardware.
I would never waste my time to support people who want to be slaves.
If they want OpenGL / Vulkan, they should ask their masters to whom they give huge amounts of money.

At least it is not slow.

[Boland]

Are there any benchmarks how this compare to native Metal?

Seems to be between 40%-80% as fast as native metal, depending on how tuned the Vulkan code is.
Some things that are best practises in Vulkan just don't map very well to Metal, and vice versa.
Most of the performance/translation cost is extra CPU time.

These will become more pronounced now that Apple is building its own GPUs that function very differently to AMD/Nvidia/Intel.
There are certain Metal functions that aren't available on Vulkan (imageblocks being one).

[starshipeleven]

MoltenVK looks to me like the Nouveau project.
A lot of work wasted to support the users who continue to buy crap hardware.

MoltenVK isn't a hardware support driver, it's a middleware that allows developers to port applications on Apple ecosystem, or write applications for iOS without being trapped into vendor lockin.

I would never waste my time to support people who want to be slaves.

Lol you aren't good at this "making money" thing, right?
That's the best kind of customer, literally. Developers usually make more money from iOS apps than from Android apps, and the ability to make crossplatform apps without vendor lock-in is very valuable.

[starshipeleven]

At least it is not slow.

Apple hasn't interfered with it yet (to the contrary of NVIDIA vs noveau)