Cross-platform 3D graphics and computing programming interface
This article is about the graphics software API. For other uses, see Vulkan (disambiguation).
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Vulkan
Original author(s)
AMD, DICE (original Mantle design)
Developer(s)
Khronos Group (donated and derived variant, as Vulkan)
Initial release
February 16, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-02-16)[1]
Stable release
1.3.284 (May 6, 2024; 2 days ago (2024-05-06)[2]) [±]
Vulkan is a low-level, low-overhead cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing.[15][16][17] 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, it is also designed to work with modern multi-core CPUs.
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