Qualcomm Announces Vulkan For Adreno 530, Will Also Support Adreno A4xx

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qualcomm Announces Vulkan For Adreno 530, Will Also Support Adreno A4xx

Qualcomm has come out today to announce Vulkan API support for their Adreno 530 GPU as found in the Snapdragon 820...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Adreno-Vulkan-Starts

[Aeder]

There's a mistake in the article:

Qualcomm also confirmed they will be supporting Vulkan with other Adreno 5xx and Adreno 5xx series graphics processors.

[Michael]

There's a mistake in the article:

Whoops, fixing, thanks.

[azari]

I wish they'd mention which specific GPUs from the Adreno 4xx series they're planning to support; if they support the 418 and 430, then the Nexus 5x and 6p may actually get Vulkan in a future Android update, which would be pretty damn sweet. I've been thinking of buying one of those two for awhile now.