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Vulkan 1.1 Articles & Reviews

RadeonSI Gallium3D Made Some More OpenGL Performance Gains This Year   Display Drivers   2018-12-21
Vulkan 1.1 Released As The First Major Update To This Graphics/Compute API   Display Drivers   2018-03-07

Vulkan 1.1 Linux & Open-Source News

Zink Lands A Simple Fix To Boost Doom Performance By ~10x   Mesa   2023-02-09
Microsoft's Dzn Mesa Driver Already Hits Vulkan 1.2   Microsoft   2023-01-27
Microsoft's Dzn Mesa Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1   Microsoft   2023-01-25
Microsoft's "Dzn" Mesa Code Achieving 99.75%+ Vulkan 1.0 Conformance   Microsoft   2023-01-20
Intel's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Adds Support For "Protected Content"   Intel   2022-10-27
Microsoft's "Dzn" Vulkan-On-D3D12 Adds Working Pipeline Cache   Microsoft   2022-06-29
Microsoft's "Dozen" Prepares For Vulkan 1.1 Support   Mesa   2022-06-15
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Open-Source Driver Closing In On Vulkan 1.2   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-23
Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Has Been Adding More Extensions, Multi-Sync Support   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-16
NVIDIA 510.68.02 Released As A Minor Bug Fix Update   NVIDIA   2022-04-26
Mesa's CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3   Vulkan   2022-03-21
PanVK Pulls Back From Advertising Vulkan 1.1 For Now   Mesa   2022-03-15
Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year   Mesa   2022-02-14
Qualcomm Open-Source Vulkan Driver Aims To Run More Windows Games Via Wine / Proton   Mesa   2022-02-09
Open-Source Qualcomm "Turnip" Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, Fixes For DXVK Use   Mesa   2021-12-03
Mesa's Turnip Driver For Qualcomm Adreno GPUs Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2   Mesa   2021-11-14
Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance   Vulkan   2021-10-26
V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1   Mesa   2021-10-21
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance   Vulkan   2021-09-15
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 Support   Vulkan   2021-08-11
Qt 6.1 Released With More Modules Ported To Qt6   Qt   2021-05-06
Turnip Vulkan Driver Continues Maturing, Correctly Rendering More Games   Mesa   2021-05-06
Mesa 21.1 Released With RADV Variable Rate Shading, More Intel Vulkan Improvements   Mesa   2021-05-05
Mesa 21.1's Lavapipe Now Teases Vulkan 1.1 On CPUs   Mesa   2021-04-07
Qt 6.1 Beta 2 Released, Qt-Project.org Called For Revival   Qt   2021-03-21
Zink OpenGL-Over-Vulkan Still Has ~200 Patches To Land, More Performance Work   Mesa   2021-03-19
Qt 6.1 Beta Released With Porting More Modules To Qt6   Qt   2021-03-02
Vulkan Wayland Compositors Are Nearing Reality   Vulkan   2021-01-20
MoltenVK 1.1 Update Brings Big Improvements For Vulkan On macOS   Vulkan   2020-09-29
The Panfrost Gallium3D Driver Begins Rendering On Arm Bifrost Hardware   Arm   2020-04-23
NVIDIA 440.58.01 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Game Crashes, New Extensions   NVIDIA   2020-02-16
vkBasalt 0.3 Vulkan Layer Adds Support For Using Reshade Fx Shaders   Vulkan   2020-02-02
DXVK 1.5.2 Released With Many Game Fixes   Linux Gaming   2020-01-24
AMDVLK 2020.Q1.1 Brings Some Performance Tuning, Still On Vulkan 1.1   Radeon   2020-01-22
Wine 5.0 Released With Big Improvements For Gaming, Countless Application Fixes   WINE   2020-01-21
The Big Highlights Of Wine 5.0 From FAudio Integration To Vulkan 1.1 + A Ton Of Bug Fixes   WINE   2020-01-12
AMDVLK 2019.Q4.5 Vulkan Driver Adds A Couple More Extensions   Radeon   2019-12-23
Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Released - GFX Reconstruct Continues Path To Replace Vktrace/Vkreplay   Vulkan   2019-12-21
MoltenVK Updated For Providing Vulkan 1.1.130 SDK Support On Apple macOS/iOS   Vulkan   2019-12-17
Trying Out The Skia+Vulkan Powered LibreOffice 6.5 Development Build   LibreOffice   2019-12-13
Vulkan 1.1.130 Released With New Tooling Extension   Vulkan   2019-12-09
Wine 5.0 Code Freeze To Begin Next Week   WINE   2019-12-06
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 2.3   Radeon   2019-12-04
Imagination Announces IMG A-Series To Deliver 2.5x Faster Performance Over Current PowerVR   Hardware   2019-12-02
Vulkan 1.1.129 Brings VK_KHR_buffer_device_address To Query Buffer Addresses   Vulkan   2019-11-25
Vulkan 1.1.128 Released With Performance Query Extension   Vulkan   2019-11-18
Wine 4.20 Brings Vulkan Updates, Better LLVM MinGW Support   WINE   2019-11-15
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Timeline Semaphore Support   Intel   2019-11-12
Vulkan 1.1.127 Released With Separate Depth Stencil Layout Extension   Vulkan   2019-11-04
MoltenVK Picks Up Metal 3.0 Capabilities, More Vulkan Features On macOS   Vulkan   2019-10-30
Google's SwiftShader Is Becoming Conformant & Performant For Vulkan On CPUs   Vulkan   2019-10-24
Vulkan 1.1.125 Released With SPIR-V 1.4 Support   Vulkan   2019-10-14
Vulkan 1.1.124 Released With Shader Clock & Timeline Semaphore Extensions   Vulkan   2019-10-06
Vulkan 1.1.123 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2019-09-16
MoltenVK Continues Improving The Vulkan Experience On macOS/iOS   Vulkan   2019-09-11
Vulkan 1.1.122 Brings Extension Documenting Proprietary Imagination Tech Bits   Vulkan   2019-09-09
Google Releases Android 10 With "Vulkan Everywhere", Privacy Improvements   Google   2019-09-03
AMDVLK 2019.Q3.5 AMD Vulkan Driver Brings Fixes & Optimizations   AMD   2019-08-29
Google's SwiftShader Now Supports Vulkan 1.1   Vulkan   2019-08-28
Vulkan 1.1.121 Brings AMD Device Coherent Memory Extension   Vulkan   2019-08-25
Vulkan 1.1.120 Released As The Newest Maintenance Release   Vulkan   2019-08-17
AMDVLK 2019.Q3.4 Vulkan Driver Enables Atomic Optimizer For Navi   Radeon   2019-08-15
NVIDIA Continues To Be Involved With Making Vulkan More Appropriate For Machine Learning   Vulkan   2019-08-13
Vulkan 1.1.119 Already Released With Another New Extension   Vulkan   2019-08-12
Vulkan 1.1.118 Released With New AMD Extensions   Vulkan   2019-08-11
Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization - Helping Out CAD Applications & More   Vulkan   2019-07-29
Vulkan 1.1.116 Published With Subgroup Size Control Extension   Vulkan   2019-07-21
Vulkan 1.1.115 Released With Another Batch Of Corrections   Vulkan   2019-07-14
Vulkan 1.1.114 Released With Image-Less Framebuffer Support   Vulkan   2019-07-08
NVIDIA 418.52.14 Linux Driver Brings Full-Screen Exclusive & Calibrated Timestamps   NVIDIA   2019-07-02
Vulkan 1.1.113 Brings Two More Extensions   Vulkan   2019-06-30
MSM DRM Adding Snapdragon 835 / Adreno 540 Support In Linux 5.3   Hardware   2019-06-26
Vulkan 1.1.112 Released While Open-Source ANV + RADV Drivers Continue Marching Along   Vulkan   2019-06-24
Vulkan 1.1.111 Released With Various Fixes   Vulkan   2019-06-10
NVIDIA Releases 418.52.10 Vulkan Linux Beta Driver   NVIDIA   2019-06-03
Vulkan 1.1.110 Released With EXT_fragment_shader_interlock & NV_shader_sm_builtins   Vulkan   2019-06-02
Vulkan 1.1.109 Released With Two New Intel Extensions   Vulkan   2019-05-24
Vulkan 1.1.108 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2019-05-13
LWJGL 3.2.2 Updates Against Vulkan 1.1, Other New Packages   Programming   2019-05-11
Android Q's ANGLE Offering OpenGL ES On Top Of Vulkan 1.1   Google   2019-05-07
The Radeon "RADV" Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1 On Android   Radeon   2019-04-26
Vulkan 1.1.107 Released With Support For Headless Surfaces   Vulkan   2019-04-16
AMDVLK 2019.Q2.1 Driver Has Some Performance Enhancement & Fixes   Radeon   2019-04-12
Vulkan 1.1.106 Released As The Latest Update For This Graphics / Compute API   Vulkan   2019-04-08
GitHub Has More Than 3,000 Projects Mentioning Vulkan, 100~200 For D3D12   Vulkan   2019-04-08
Wine 4.5 Released With Support For Vulkan 1.1, More Media Foundation APIs   WINE   2019-03-29
Valve Releases Proton 4.2 Based On Newer Wine Plus DXVK 1.0.1, Updated FAudio   Valve   2019-03-26
Vulkan Working To Expose Video Encode/Decode, Machine Learning   Standards   2019-03-24
Wine Has Landed The Necessary Patches For Vulkan 1.1 Support   WINE   2019-03-20
Vulkan 1.1.105 Adds New Extensions For Google Games Platform (Stadia)   Vulkan   2019-03-20
NVIDIA 418.49.04 Linux Driver Brings Host Query Reset & YCbCr Image Arrays   NVIDIA   2019-03-17
Vulkan 1.1.104 Brings Native HDR, Exclusive Fullscreen Extensions   Vulkan   2019-03-17
Android Q Reaches Public Beta With Improved Privacy, Opus/AV1 Support, ANGLE On Vulkan   Google   2019-03-13
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Adds VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block, VK_EXT_ycbcr_image_arrays   Intel   2019-03-05
Vulkan 1.1.102 Released With Apple Metal Surface Extension   Vulkan   2019-03-04
Intel Wires VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable Into Their Vulkan Driver, Helping DXVK   Intel   2019-02-20
NVIDIA 418.31.03 Linux Driver Has Fixes For Hitman 2 On DXVK, Warhammer II Linux Fix   NVIDIA   2019-02-19
Vulkan 1.1.101 Released With Two New Extensions - Including Another To Help DXVK   Vulkan   2019-02-19
Freedreno Picks Up OpenGL Compute Support For Adreno A6xx Hardware   Mesa   2019-02-17
Vulkan 1.1.100 Released Ahead Of Vulkan's Third Birthday   Vulkan   2019-02-11
RADV Vulkan Driver Wires In EXT_buffer_device_address Support For Mesa 19.1   Radeon   2019-02-07
Vulkan 1.1.99 Is Out With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2019-02-04
RADV Lands Last Minute Improvements In Mesa 19.0, Introduces VK_EXT_memory_priority   Mesa   2019-01-29
Khronos Gears Up For A Busy GDC 2019 With Vulkan, OpenXR   Standards   2019-01-24
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Conditional Rendering, Draw Indirect Count   Intel   2019-01-18
RADV Vulkan Driver Picks Up Memory Budget Information For Mesa 19.0   Mesa   2019-01-15
Vulkan 1.1.98 Brings A Dozen Fixes   Vulkan   2019-01-13
Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver Aiming For Transform Feedback In Mesa 19.0, Helping DXVK   Intel   2019-01-09
AMDVLK 2019.Q1.1 Radeon Vulkan Driver Build Now Available For Ubuntu   Radeon   2019-01-08
The First AMDVLK Code Drop Of 2019 Rolls Out With New Vulkan Driver Features   Radeon   2019-01-07
NVIDIA 415.22.05 Driver Taps New Vulkan Extensions, Better Pipeline Creation Performance   NVIDIA   2019-01-06
Vulkan 1.1.97 Released With Five New Extensions   Vulkan   2019-01-06
From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019   Linux Kernel   2019-01-02
Other Open-Source / Linux Letdowns For 2018 From File Creation Time To Flatpaks   Free Software   2019-01-02
A Look At The Wayland/Weston Development Stats For 2018   Wayland   2018-12-26
Vulkan 1.1.96 Released With Many Corrections & Clarifications   Vulkan   2018-12-17
Mesa 19.0 RADV Vulkan Driver Gets New Fixes To Help DXVK Gaming   Mesa   2018-12-13
Intel Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For New KHR_shader_float16_int8 Functionality   Intel   2018-12-04
NVIDIA 415.18.04 Vulkan Linux Beta Brings New Extensions, Unity Game Engine Fix   NVIDIA   2018-12-03
Vulkan 1.1.95 Released With New Floating Point Extensions   Vulkan   2018-12-03
Vulkan 1.1.94 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2018-11-26
Vulkan 1.1.93 Released With Two New Extensions, Adds ID For Google "Pastel"   Vulkan   2018-11-18
Vulkan 1.1.92 Released, Finally Allows For Chunked HTML Documentation   Vulkan   2018-11-12
Vulkan 1.1.91 Released With NV_ray_tracing, AMD Memory Overallocation Behavior   Vulkan   2018-11-04
EA SEED's Halcyon R&D Engine Experimenting With Vulkan & Linux Support   Vulkan   2018-10-28
Vulkan 1.1.89 Released As A Small Spec Update   Vulkan   2018-10-22
AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Driver Updated With A Slew Of Additions   Radeon   2018-10-19
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Move Ahead With PCI Bus Info, Calibrated Timestamps   Mesa   2018-10-15
Vulkan Cracks 2,500 Projects On GitHub   Vulkan   2018-10-14
NVIDIA 396.54.09 Vulkan Driver Released With Transform Feedback, Intel ANV Gets TF Too   Vulkan   2018-10-13
DXVK Already Lands Vulkan Transform Feedback Support, RADV Posts Patches   Vulkan   2018-10-13
Vulkan 1.1.88 Released With Transform Feedback As A Big Win For VKD3D / DXVK   Vulkan   2018-10-13
Wine 3.18 Brings FreeType Subpixel Font Rendering, Wine Console DPI Scaling   WINE   2018-10-12
NVIDIA's Guide For Getting Started With RTX Ray-Tracing In Vulkan   NVIDIA   2018-10-10
vRt Aims To Be A Unified Vulkan Ray-Tracing Library   Vulkan   2018-10-10
Vulkan 1.1.87 Released But Not Yet Any Experimental Transform Feedback   Vulkan   2018-10-07
AMDVLK Driver Gets Fixes For DXVK, New Vulkan Extensions   Radeon   2018-10-01
Vulkan 1.1.86 Released With Driver Properties & Atomic INT64 Extensions   Vulkan   2018-09-29
MoltenVK Updated Against Vulkan 1.1.85, New Features   Vulkan   2018-09-27
Vulkan 1.1.85 Released With Raytracing, Mesh Shaders & Other New NVIDIA Extensions   Vulkan   2018-09-19
Khronos Talks Up The New Vulkan Memory Model   Vulkan   2018-09-13
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated With New Extensions (v396.54.05)   NVIDIA   2018-09-10
Vulkan 1.1.84 Brings KHR Memory Model, ASTC Decode Mode Extensions   Vulkan   2018-09-09
AMDVLK Linux Driver Updated For Vulkan 1.1.82, Conservative Rasterization   Radeon   2018-09-01
Vulkan 1.1.83 Released With Minor Documentation Updates For SIGGRAPH   Vulkan   2018-08-13
Flatpak Gets New FreeDesktop SDK 18.08 Runtime   GNOME   2018-08-11
AMD Radeon Pro 18.Q3 Linux Driver Released   Radeon   2018-08-08
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Update Brings Hang Fixes, Device Diagnostic Checkpoints   NVIDIA   2018-08-07
Google Officially Launches Android 9 "Pie" With Adaptive Battery, Slices   Google   2018-08-06
DXVK 0.64 Released With More Game Fixes   WINE   2018-08-04