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Khronos Articles & Reviews

Vulkan 1.3 Released With Dynamic Rendering In Core, New Roadmap Guidance For Modern GPUs   Display Drivers   2022-01-25
Vulkan Ray-Tracing Arrives With New Khronos Extension   Display Drivers   2020-03-17
Vulkan 1.2 Arrives With An Eye On Greater Performance, Better Compatibility With Other 3D APIs On Top   Display Drivers   2020-01-15
SIGGRAPH 2018: OpenCL-Next Taking Shape, Vulkan Continues Evolving   Software   2018-08-13
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance For Linux Games   Linux Gaming   2018-07-14
Vulkan 1.1 Released As The First Major Update To This Graphics/Compute API   Display Drivers   2018-03-07
Vulkan Continues To Show Its Gaming Strength On Low-End Hardware   Linux Gaming   2018-01-26
Vulkan 1.0 Released: What You Need To Know About This Cross-Platform, High-Performance Graphics API   Software   2016-02-16
Khronos Debuts OpenGL ES 3.2 & New GL Extensions, But No Vulkan This Week   Software   2015-08-10
Khronos Group Announces Vulkan, OpenCL 2.1, SPIR-V   Display Drivers   2015-03-03
OpenGL 3.0, GLSL 1.30 Released   Display Drivers   2008-08-11

Khronos Linux & Open-Source News

Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension   Vulkan   2024-03-08
Vulkan 1.3.279 Brings New NVIDIA Extension Co-Engineered By Valve   Vulkan   2024-03-02
Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Now Declared Vulkan 1.3 Conformant, Mesa 24.1 To Build By Default   Nouveau   2024-02-28
NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library   Nouveau   2024-02-28
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension   Vulkan   2024-02-01
ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V   Programming   2024-01-30
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation   Radeon   2024-01-26
Open-Source Intel & AMD Drivers Make Quick Progress On Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Extensions   Vulkan   2024-01-25
Vulkan Roadmap 2024 Brings Shader Quad Control, Shader Maximal Reconvergence & More   Vulkan   2024-01-25
AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support   Radeon   2024-01-23
Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted   Vulkan   2023-12-19
RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On   Mesa   2023-12-18
Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures   Mesa   2023-12-12
Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension   Vulkan   2023-12-08
Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2023-12-02
AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements   Radeon   2023-11-27
Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0   Nouveau   2023-11-20
Vulkan 1.3.270 Released With New Imagination Extension To Help OpenGL Emulation   Vulkan   2023-11-10
RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA   Radeon   2023-10-24
Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels   Vulkan   2023-10-20
Intel Proposes Adding Full SYCL Programming Model Support To Upstream LLVM   LLVM   2023-10-16
Vulkan 1.3.267 Released With Nested Command Buffer Extension   Vulkan   2023-10-06
NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming   Vulkan   2023-10-04
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 RTX Optimizations   Radeon   2023-09-22
Vulkan 1.3.264 Released With Microsoft Layered Driver Extension   Vulkan   2023-09-08
David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux GPU Compute Stacks   Intel   2023-09-02
Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension   Vulkan   2023-09-02
Vulkan 1.3.262 Rolls Out With Four New Extensions   Vulkan   2023-08-25
Mesa's Vulkan WSI/Wayland Code Adds "IMMEDIATE" Present Mode Support   Mesa   2023-08-24
Asahi Linux's Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant   Apple   2023-08-22
Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API   Standards   2023-08-02
Intel's Embree 4.2 Promotes Its SYCL GPU Support Out Of Beta   Intel   2023-08-01
Mesa 23.3 Adds EGL Explicit Device Support   Mesa   2023-07-31
Vulkan 1.3.260 Released With AMDX_shader_enqueue, KHR_maintenance5   Vulkan   2023-07-28
Intel's oneAPI Construction Kit 3.0 Released   Intel   2023-07-28
Vulkan 1.3.258 Released With New Host Image Copy Extension, NVIDIA DGC Compute   Vulkan   2023-07-21
Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL   Free Software   2023-07-07
Vulkan 1.3.255 Released With Cooperative Matrix Extension   Vulkan   2023-06-26
Valve Still Making RADV Driver Improvements To AMD GCN 1.0 Era Hardware   Radeon   2023-06-21
Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve   Vulkan   2023-06-16
Intel's Codeplay Announces oneAPI Construction Kit For Bringing SYCL To New Hardware   Intel   2023-06-05
FFmpeg's Next Release Will Be Exciting With Vulkan Video Decode, More Vulkan Filters   Multimedia   2023-05-31
Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others   Vulkan   2023-05-28
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.2 Brings New Extension For VKD3D-Proton, Performance Tuning   Radeon   2023-05-22
Microsoft Preparing For Their First Vulkan Extension   Microsoft   2023-05-20
TornadoVM Continues Adapting Java OpenJDK/GraalVM For Heterogeneous Hardware   Programming   2023-05-15
RADV Adds Support For VK_EXT_tooling_info   Radeon   2023-05-15
Vulkan 1.3.250 Released With Another New Extension From Valve   Vulkan   2023-05-04
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension   Vulkan   2023-04-27
OpenCL 3.0.14 Released With New Extension For Command Buffer Multi-Device   Standards   2023-04-18
Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object   Vulkan   2023-03-31
Vulkan 1.3.245 Brings New NVIDIA Vendor Extension To Help Optimize Ray-Tracing   Vulkan   2023-03-28
MoltenVK 1.2.3 Released For Continuing To Enhance Vulkan Atop iOS/macOS   Vulkan   2023-03-23
Khronos Developing SYCL SC For Safety-Critical C++ Heterogeneous Compute   Standards   2023-03-15
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available   Vulkan   2023-03-14
Vulkan 1.3.242 Released With New NVIDIA Low-Latency Extension   Vulkan   2023-02-27
Mobileye Provides Khronos With An Open-Source OpenCL Tensor & Tiling Library   Standards   2023-02-22
Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC   Mesa   2023-02-17
Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation   Vulkan   2023-02-16
hipSYCL Becomes Open SYCL For Targeting All Major CPUs & GPUs   Standards   2023-02-10
Mesa 23.1 RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video Decoding For H.264/H.265   Radeon   2023-02-07
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support   Vulkan   2023-01-30
MoltenVK v1.2.2 Released For Improving Vulkan API Support On macOS/iOS   Vulkan   2023-01-24
Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension   Vulkan   2023-01-19
VKD3D-Proton's Hans-Kristian Arntzen Experimenting With Vulkan Video   Vulkan   2023-01-07
RADV Vulkan Video Making Progress On H.264 Encoding   Radeon   2022-12-29
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year   Vulkan   2022-12-22
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238   Vulkan   2022-12-19
Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working   Mesa   2022-12-15
Vulkan 1.3.237 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-12-08
PoCL 3.1 Released - Improved SPIR-V For CPU & CUDA Drivers, WIP Vulkan Driver   Standards   2022-12-05
Vulkan 1.3.235 Released With New VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Extension   Vulkan   2022-11-17
Mesa's Rusticl Achieves Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance   Mesa   2022-11-14
The Khronos Group Announces "Kamaros" As Their Newest Forthcoming API   Standards   2022-11-09
MoltenVK Updated For Vulkan 1.2 Support On Apple macOS/iOS   Vulkan   2022-10-18
Rusticl Can Run Atop Zink Gallium3D Atop Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2022-10-07
Vulkan 1.3.230 Published With Six New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-09-29
OpenCL 3.0.12 Published With Command Buffers Mutable Dispatch Extension   Standards   2022-09-16
Vulkan 1.3.228 Promotes One Of Valve's Extensions Used For Efficient D3D12 Emulation   Vulkan   2022-09-15
Vulkan 1.3.227 Adds Legacy Dithering Extension To Help OpenGL On Vulkan   Vulkan   2022-09-08
Vulkan 1.3.226 Released With Mesh Shader Extension   Vulkan   2022-09-01
Intel's SYCLomatic 20220829 Released For Converting CUDA Code To C++ SYCL   Intel   2022-08-30
Vulkan 1.3.224 Introduces Another New Extension To Help Valve's Steam Play   Vulkan   2022-08-04
Qualcomm Working On Vulkan Image Processing With New v1.3.222 Extensions   Vulkan   2022-07-21
Lavapipe Vulkan Software Implementation Now Compliant With Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-07-20
Vulkan 1.3.221 Released With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness   Vulkan   2022-07-16
Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-07-02
OpenGL Celebrates Its 30th Birthday   Standards   2022-06-30
Intel Still Hoping To Have oneAPI/SYCL GPU Acceleration In Blender 3.3   Intel   2022-06-21
Vulkan Mesh Shaders To Closely Mirror Direct3D 12 Capabilities   Mesa   2022-06-21
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver Nearly Across The Finish Line For Vulkan 1.2   Vulkan   2022-06-16
PoCL 3.0 Released With Minimal OpenCL 3.0 Implementation For CPUs   Standards   2022-06-10
Vulkan 1.3.217 Adds Extension To Interact With Apple Metal Objects   Vulkan   2022-06-09
Mesa 22.2 RADV Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Maintenance Extension   Mesa   2022-06-08
Open-Source AMDVLK Vulkan Driver Preparing Mesh Shader Support   Radeon   2022-06-06
Linux 5.20 + Mesa 22.2 To Allow Conformant Mali G57 OpenGL ES 3.1 Support   Mesa   2022-06-06
Fragment Shading Rate Extension Comes To OpenGL ES   Standards   2022-06-02
Intel Makes Another Exciting Software Acquisition   Intel   2022-06-01
Mesa's Lavapipe Now Officially Vulkan 1.2 Conformant   Vulkan   2022-05-27
Vulkan 1.3.215 Released With Barycentric Fragment Shader Extension   Vulkan   2022-05-24
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Open-Source Driver Closing In On Vulkan 1.2   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-23
Intel Announces SYCLomatic For Open-Source Conversion Of CUDA Code To C++ SYCL   Intel   2022-05-19
Microsoft Lands VA-API To Direct3D 12 H.264 Video Encode/Decode In Mesa   Microsoft   2022-05-17
Vulkan 1.3.214 Released With New AMD Vendor Extension   Vulkan   2022-05-17
Vulkan 1.3.213 Released With Minor Ray-Tracing Update, Other New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-05-10
AMD Radeon ProRender Adds Support For Khronos' ANARI   Radeon   2022-05-09
OpenCL 3.0.11 Released With Two New Extensions   Standards   2022-05-06
Mesa's New OpenCL Stack "Rusticl" Nearing Formal Support For OpenCL 3.0   Mesa   2022-04-22
Initial SPIR-V Backend Code Lands In LLVM 15   LLVM   2022-04-20
Khronos Makes Improvements To OpenCL SDK, Plots Roadmap   Programming   2022-04-07
Fedora Makes Progress On Radeon ROCm Packages, But Still Needs To Land OpenCL / HIP   Radeon   2022-04-07
TornadoVM 0.13 Released For Java OpenJDK/GraalVM Offloading To GPUs, FPGAs & More   Programming   2022-03-21
Microsoft Wants To Add DirectX + HLSL Support To The Upstream LLVM/Clang Compiler   Microsoft   2022-03-09
Vulkan 1.3.207 Brings Another New Extension From Valve   Vulkan   2022-03-08
Vulkan Ready To Take On Safety-Critical Market With Vulkan SC 1.0   Vulkan   2022-03-08
NZXT Developing Some Sort Of New Vulkan-Supported Software For Gamers   Vulkan   2022-02-24
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Experimental Mesh Shader Support For DG2/Alchemist   Intel   2022-02-02
Basis Universal 1.16 Released With OpenCL Support, Other Improvements   Programming   2022-01-29
Intel's Vulkan 1.3 Support All Ready For Mesa 22.0   Intel   2022-01-27
Valve Working On Radeon Dynamic VRS For The Steam Deck To Increase Power Savings   Mesa   2022-01-26
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Dynamic Rendering Support   Intel   2022-01-26
Khronos Establishing A Camera API Working Group   Standards   2022-01-19
AMD Radeon Open-Source OpenGL Driver Expands Its Sparse Texture Capabilities   Radeon   2022-01-18
LLVM Enjoyed Record Growth In 2021, Many Exciting Compiler Advancements   LLVM   2022-01-02
Vulkan 1.2.203 Released With Many Documentation Updates, New Extensions   Vulkan   2021-12-20
Intel's Lead Developer Of Their Linux Vulkan Driver Has Left The Company   Intel   2021-12-19
LLVM Working On "HIPSPV" So AMD HIP Code Can Turn Into SPIR-V And Run On OpenCL   LLVM   2021-12-14
Intel, Arm & Khronos Feel Ready to Land SPIR-V Backend Within LLVM   LLVM   2021-12-08
Radeon RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Dynamic Rendering Support   Mesa   2021-12-06
Open-Source Qualcomm "Turnip" Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, Fixes For DXVK Use   Mesa   2021-12-03
RADV Vulkan Driver Finally Adds VK_KHR_synchronization2 Support   Radeon   2021-11-27
OpenCL 3.0.10 Brings A Handful Of New Extensions   Standards   2021-11-19
Experimental FFmpeg Code For Vulkan Acceleration   Multimedia   2021-11-18
Vulkan 1.2.199 Released With New Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton   Vulkan   2021-11-16
New Vulkan Extension Proposed To Help In Emulating AMD's Old Mantle API   Vulkan   2021-11-16
Khronos Prepares ANARI 1.0 API For Scalable 3D Data Visualization   Standards   2021-11-02
Vulkan 1.2.197 Released With Dynamic Rendering Extension   Vulkan   2021-11-02
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Prepares Experimental Mesh Shaders   Mesa   2021-10-30
Zink OpenGL On Vulkan Inches Closer To OpenGL 4.6 Conformance, More Games Working   Linux Gaming   2021-10-29
Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance   Vulkan   2021-10-26
Vulkanised Fall 2021 Material Available - Autodesk Has Begun Using MoltenVK   Vulkan   2021-10-23
V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1   Mesa   2021-10-21
Vendors Including NVIDIA Talk Up New OpenCL Extensions For Vulkan Interop, NN Inference   Standards   2021-10-19
OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released   Standards   2021-10-15
Mesa 21.3 Fixes Issue Of Some Games Having Transparency Issues Under Wayland   Mesa   2021-10-13
Microsoft's "CLOn12" Mesa Code Adds SPIR/SPIR-V Support   Mesa   2021-09-23
The Khronos Group Is Hosting A Virtual Vulkan Event Next Month   Vulkan   2021-09-07
Vulkan 1.2.190 Released With SPIR-V Integer Dot Product Support   Vulkan   2021-08-30
Intel Lands Initial Code For Mesh Shaders Within Mesa   Intel   2021-08-28