A successor to OpenGL, the open source graphics library that stands as a direct rival to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 library and Apple’s Metal, has been named by The Khronos Group, a consortium of schools ...

Throughout the past few weeks, I’ve received some passionate pleas from hardware fans wanting me to include Doom Vulkan testing and conduct a performance analysis. Of course, I understand the reason ...

Gamers soon won't need dual water-cooled Tegra K1 Dual Denver cores to flawlessly run mobile games, if the evolution of OpenGL, now known as Vulkan, lives up to its promise. Gaming graphics in general ...

Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you’re the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal last year, and OS X El Capitan will bring the ...

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Imagination has released details of its next generation of GPUs, aimed at the ultra-affordable mobile and embedded markets. In doing so it has raised the bar for low-end smartphones by including ...

One of the things I've been interested in testing is whether low-level APIs will reduce the CPU requirements. That's what I thought they would do back when DX12 was first being discussed—after all, ...

Nvidia has updated its GeForce Experience software to version 3.6, and with it comes a welcome upgrade in functionality. Specifically, the latest GeForce Experience build adds video capture and ...

The Khronos Group announced today Vulkan, its next generation API for high performance 3D graphics and GPU-based computation. Vulkan, previously known as Next Generation OpenGL or just GLnext, is ...

Khronos group has announced it will add the Nintendo Switch to its list of hardware supporting the development tools OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan. This announcement is relevant to those who have ...

Nvidia has just updated its GeForce Experience accessory software to version 3.6. In this update the graphics processor maker has chiefly addressed some compatibility deficiencies of the GeForce ...

When paired with a 1920×1080, Doom doesn’t really pose a problem for modern graphics cards even on lower-tiered products like the GTX 960 2GB. Surprisingly, the low frame-buffer doesn’t become an ...