Breaking News

SAMA introduces L70 AIO Liquid Cooler Crucial Unleashes Its Most Powerful Gaming Memory Yet: DDR5 Pro OC 6400 CL32 RICOH announces GR IV Monochrome and GR IV HDF High-end Compact Digital Cameras CORSAIR Launches the Revolutionary AIR 5400 Triple-Chamber Mid Tower to Redefine Performance ASUS TUF Gaming Unveils Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

logo

  • Share Us
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
  • Home
  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Essays
  • Forum
  • Legacy
  • About
    • Submit News

    • Contact Us
    • Privacy

    • Promotion
    • Advertise

    • RSS Feed
    • Site Map

Search form

Vulkan 1.2 Brings Improved GPU Acceleration Functionality and Performance

Vulkan 1.2 Brings Improved GPU Acceleration Functionality and Performance

GPUs Jan 15,2020 0

The Khronos Group has released the Vulkan 1.2 specification for GPU acceleration.

This release integrates 23 extensions into the core Vulkan API, bringing developer-requested access to new hardware functionality, improved application performance, and enhanced API usability. Multiple GPU vendors have certified conformant implementations, and significant open source tooling is expected during January 2020.

Vulkan is shipping new functionality as extensions, and then consolidating extensions that receive positive developer feedback into a unified core API specification. Selected API features are made optional to enable market-focused implementations. Many Vulkan 1.2 features were requested by developers to meet the needs in their engines and applications, including: timeline semaphores for easily managed synchronization; a formal memory model to precisely define the semantics of synchronization and memory operations in different threads; descriptor indexing to enable reuse of descriptor layouts by multiple shaders; deeper support for shaders written in HLSL, and more.

“Vulkan 1.2 brings together nearly two dozen high-priority features developed over the past two years into one, unified core Vulkan standard, setting a cutting-edge bar for functionality in the industry’s only open GPU API for cross-platform 3D and compute acceleration,” said Tom Olson, engineer at Arm, and Vulkan working group chair.

Khronos and the Vulkan community will support Vulkan 1.2 in a wide range of open source compilers, tools, and debuggers by the end of January 2020. This includes the RenderDoc frame capture and debugging tool, the Vulkan conformance test suite, and the Vulkan SDK with support for both the ‘GPU Assisted’ and ‘Best Practices’ validation layers.

All GPUs that support previous versions of Vulkan are capable of supporting Vulkan 1.2, ensuring its widespread availability. As of today, five GPU vendors have Vulkan 1.2 implementations passing the Khronos conformance tests: AMD, Arm, Imagination Technologies, Intel, NVIDIA, plus the open-source Mesa RADV driver for AMD.

Vulkan is supported in a diverse range of devices from Windows and Linux PCs, consoles, and the cloud, to mobile phones and embedded platforms, including the addition of Google’s Stadia in 2019.

Tags: VulkanKhronos
Previous Post
Apple Eyes the Drone Market
Next Post
The New Chronium-based Microsoft Edge is Out For Download

Related Posts

  • Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing

  • Khronos Releases OpenXR 1.0 Specification For the AR and VR Ecosystem

  • Khronos OpenXR 0.90 Provisional Specification Provides High-Performance Access to AR and VR Platforms and Devices

  • Vulkan 1.1 Released

  • Vulkan Apps Enabled on Apple Platforms

  • Khronos Group Spells Out Details of Neural Network Standard

  • Vulkan 1.0 Now Supported By Intel For Windows PC Chips

  • Vulkan 1.0 Specification Released

Latest News

SAMA introduces L70 AIO Liquid Cooler
Cooling Systems

SAMA introduces L70 AIO Liquid Cooler

Crucial Unleashes Its Most Powerful Gaming Memory Yet: DDR5 Pro OC 6400 CL32
PC components

Crucial Unleashes Its Most Powerful Gaming Memory Yet: DDR5 Pro OC 6400 CL32

RICOH announces GR IV Monochrome and GR IV HDF High-end Compact Digital Cameras
Cameras

RICOH announces GR IV Monochrome and GR IV HDF High-end Compact Digital Cameras

CORSAIR Launches the Revolutionary AIR 5400 Triple-Chamber Mid Tower to Redefine Performance
Cooling Systems

CORSAIR Launches the Revolutionary AIR 5400 Triple-Chamber Mid Tower to Redefine Performance

ASUS TUF Gaming Unveils Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
GPUs

ASUS TUF Gaming Unveils Call of Duty Black Ops 7 Edition AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Popular Reviews

be quiet! Dark Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Dark Mount Keyboard

Terramaster F8-SSD

Terramaster F8-SSD

be quiet! Light Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Light Mount Keyboard

be quiet! Pure Base 501

be quiet! Pure Base 501

Soundpeats Pop Clip

Soundpeats Pop Clip

Akaso 360 Action camera

Akaso 360 Action camera

Dragon Touch Digital Calendar

Dragon Touch Digital Calendar

Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 fans

Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 fans

Main menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Essays
  • Forum
  • Legacy
  • About
    • Submit News

    • Contact Us
    • Privacy

    • Promotion
    • Advertise

    • RSS Feed
    • Site Map
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Contact Us
  • Promotional Opportunities @ CdrInfo.com
  • Advertise on out site
  • Submit your News to our site
  • RSS Feed