Ars Technica

Vulkan now official, with 1.0 API release and AMD driver [Updated]

After missing its planned release date last year, the Khronos Group has released version 1.0 of the Vulkan API specification, the next-generation version of OpenGL. Initially based on AMD’s ...
PC World

Mantle is a Vulkan: AMD’s dead graphics API rises from the ashes in OpenGL’s successor

AMD’s Mantle 1.0 is indeed dead, but like a Jedi, it looks to have risen in the form of the Kronos Group’s new open standard, cross-platform Vulkan API (but without Obi Wan’s weird blue glow). As I ...
ExtremeTech

Not dead yet: AMD's Mantle powers new Vulkan API, VR efforts

AMD's Mantle has been loudly proclaimed as dead following the launch of the Vulkan API yesterday, but that's not an accurate reading of the situation. Much of Mantle lives on in Vulkan. Share on ...
ExtremeTech

Next-generation Vulkan API could be Valve's killer advantage in battling Microsoft

Valve is putting a hefty push behind the new Vulkan API, but the stakes are higher than they've been in past years. This time, the premiere PC game distribution platform is gearing up to take on ...