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Vulkan

Vulkan is a cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and parallelized computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support a wide variety of GPUs, CPUs and operating systems, and modern multi-core CPUs also.

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Developers
Khronos Group (donated and derived variant, as Vulkan)
License
Apache Software License 2.0, MIT License, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Operating system
Android, Linux, BSD Unix, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Fuchsia, Raspberry Pi, vxWorks, QNX, HarmonyOS, OpenHarmony, Oniro, Haiku, Stadia, Tizen Through portability workarounds: mac…
Original authors
AMD, DICE (original Mantle design)
Release
16 February 2016; 10 years ago (16 February 2016)
Repository
github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs

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Vulkan

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related to Vulkan 1.1 · 23
Vulkan → Alongside Vulkan, Android, API, At, At SIGGRAPH, CPU, Crossfire, Direct3D, DirectX, For, GPU, GPUs, HLSL, Khronos, Khronos Group, Multi-GPU, Nvidia GPUs, On March, SLI, SPIR-V
related to Further reading · 22
Vulkan → Alexey Medvedev, Apr, Computer Graphics, Cookbook, Dec, Feb, Graham Sellers, Graphics Rendering Cookbook, ISBN, John Kessenich ISBN, Jul, Kenwright ISBN, Learning Vulkan, Nov, OpenGL, Parminder Singh ISBN, Pawel Lapinski ISBN, Sergey Kosarevsky, The Official Guide, Viktor Latypov
related to Cross-platform · 20
Vulkan → Android, API, Apple's Metal API, BSD Unix, Direct3D, Fuchsia, Haiku, Like OpenGL, Linux, MoltenVK, Nintendo Switch, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OS, QNX, Raspberry Pi, Stadia, Tizen, Vulkan API, Windows
related to 2015 · 17
Vulkan → Android, August, Direct3D11, Google, HD, In, Intel, Linux, LunarG, Mesa, Nougat, On August, OpenGL, Oreo, Sandy Bridge, There, Valve
related to Huawei, OpenAtom Foundation and Eclipse Foundation · 15
Vulkan → API, ArkGraphics, As, August, Eclipse Foundation, HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS NEXT, Huawei, It, May, Oniro, OpenAtom's, OpenHarmony, SPIR-V, Vulkan NAPI
related to NVIDIA · 15
Vulkan → August, It, Kepler, Linux, Maxwell, Mesa, NVIDIA, NVK, October, On Windows, Pascal, September, The, Turing, Volta
related to 2018 · 14
Vulkan → Apache, Brenwill Workshop Ltd, Dota, February, GitHub, Khronos Group, Metal, MoltenVK, On February, Other, Previously MoltenVK, SIGGRAPH, Valve, Vulkan API
related to Pre-compiled shaders · 13
Vulkan → By, Direct3D, GLSL, GPU, GPU's, HLSL, However, In, OpenGL, SPIR-V, Standard Portable Intermediate Representation, The, This
related to Android and mobile GPUs · 12
Vulkan → Android, Arm Mali, Bifrost, Broadcom VideoCore VI, ChromeOS, Mesa, Midgard, Most, Nougat, On Linux, Pie, Qualcomm Adreno
related to Features · 12
Vulkan → APIs, Apple, CPU, Direct3D, GPU, Intended, Its, Mantle, Metal, Microsoft, OpenGL, They

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support api opengl khronos graphics announced driver linux android direct3d group windows released metal apis 2022 gpus also shaders features

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VulkanDevelopersKhronos Group (donated and derived variant, as Vulkan)1.00infobox
VulkanLicenseApache Software License 2.0, MIT License, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International1.00infobox
VulkanOperating systemAndroid, Linux, BSD Unix, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Fuchsia, Raspberry Pi, vxWorks, QNX, HarmonyOS, OpenHarmony, Oniro, Haiku, Stadia, Tizen Through portability workarounds: mac…1.00infobox
VulkanOriginal authorsAMD, DICE (original Mantle design)1.00infobox
VulkanRelease16 February 2016; 10 years ago (16 February 2016)1.00infobox
VulkanRepositorygithub.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs1.00infobox
VulkanStable release1.4.360 / 14 August 2026; 9 days ago (14 August 2026)1.00infobox
VulkanType3D graphics and compute API1.00infobox
VulkanWebsitehttps://www.vulkan.org/1.00infobox
VulkanWritten inC (also available C++ API)1.00infobox
Vulkanis across-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and parallelized computing0.90text
Direct3Dinstance ofsuch as Google's ANGLE and Mesa's Zink.Nor is Vulkan compatible with other graphics APIs0.80text

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