https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/ architosh™ — a global-leading CAD / 3D / AEC industry technology publication and #1 source for Mac and iOS users in these segments. Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-60809 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:09:54 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-60809 RT @architosh: The Future of Graphics: Introducing Vulkan—Heir Apparent to OpenGL / OpenGL ES: The future of computer g… http://t.co/cO6u…

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-51966 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:09:54 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-51966 RT @architosh: The Future of Graphics: Introducing Vulkan—Heir Apparent to OpenGL / OpenGL ES: The future of computer g… http://t.co/cO6u…

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-60003 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:54:14 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-60003 Answering Nicolas again,
Apple likely has no plans for abandoning Metal for Vulkan anymore than Microsoft would abandon DirectX. Vulkan compliments existing APIs, while giving developers choice. For platform-specific developers, using DirectX or Apple’s new Metal has some advantages, for developers who need to target more platforms they choose open-standards APIs. Vulkan was developed for the future, a world where we have dozens if not more types of compute and/or graphical devices, from TVs, robots, smart cars, smart watches, appliances, computers, tablets and smartphones. All the other previous API architectures didn’t start with this Internet of Things vision, thus they have serious limitations in addressing it.

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-51964 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:54:14 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-51964 Answering Nicolas again,
Apple likely has no plans for abandoning Metal for Vulkan anymore than Microsoft would abandon DirectX. Vulkan compliments existing APIs, while giving developers choice. For platform-specific developers, using DirectX or Apple’s new Metal has some advantages, for developers who need to target more platforms they choose open-standards APIs. Vulkan was developed for the future, a world where we have dozens if not more types of compute and/or graphical devices, from TVs, robots, smart cars, smart watches, appliances, computers, tablets and smartphones. All the other previous API architectures didn’t start with this Internet of Things vision, thus they have serious limitations in addressing it.

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-51962 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:16:27 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-51962 Answering Nicolas Miard,
VulKan goes farther than Apple’s Metal in terms of direct access to the GPU hardware. If on one end of the spectrum we can speak of being explicit (hardware side) and easy (easier for coders) than Metal is less explicit than Vulkan.

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-59999 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:16:27 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-59999 Answering Nicolas Miard,
VulKan goes farther than Apple’s Metal in terms of direct access to the GPU hardware. If on one end of the spectrum we can speak of being explicit (hardware side) and easy (easier for coders) than Metal is less explicit than Vulkan.

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-51960 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:16:06 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-51960 Can Vulkan be compared to Apple’s recent Metal API for iOS? aiming at a more direct access to the GPU?
If Apple is part of the development, will the abandon Metal for Vulkan? Or maybe it’s just for the Mac.

]]> https://architosh.com/2015/03/the-future-of-graphics-introducing-vulkan-heir-apparent-to-opengl-opengl-es/#comment-60001 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:16:06 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=15336#comment-60001 Can Vulkan be compared to Apple’s recent Metal API for iOS? aiming at a more direct access to the GPU?
If Apple is part of the development, will the abandon Metal for Vulkan? Or maybe it’s just for the Mac.

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