Vulkan 1.0 is released!

Feb 16, 2016 at 11:30pm
Khronos released the first publicly available stable revision of the Vulkan specification: https://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-releases-vulkan-1-0-specification

LunarG also provided an SDK which comes with various tools for debugging, validation, shader generation/compilation and various other uses: http://lunarg.com/vulkan-sdk/

There's also a C++ wrapper provided by nvidia: https://developer.nvidia.com/open-source-vulkan-c-api

Looking forward to the days to come... ;D

EDIT: Nvidia has day one support although they released two different drivers the same day. The drivers on this page contain a Vulkan ICD: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
All upcoming drivers should support Vulkan out of the box.
Last edited on Feb 16, 2016 at 11:51pm
Feb 16, 2016 at 11:46pm
The author of one of the graphics libraries I use has been keeping an eye on it, and is now planning to start implementing support. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Feb 17, 2016 at 1:07am
Dolphin Emulator's developers have already implemented DX12 with huge improvements.
Can't wait til Vulkan is ready for a comparison.
Feb 18, 2016 at 10:11pm
Sweet, great to hear some gears finally turning with that
Feb 29, 2016 at 2:07pm
Looking forward to using that
Feb 29, 2016 at 2:22pm
For anyone interested, AMD already has beta drivers for Vulkan:
http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/vulkan/

I think other companies do too but I CBA. EDIT: Thanks SGH! More info below:
Last edited on Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14pm
Feb 29, 2016 at 5:01pm
Sadly,
AMD wrote:
Please note that this initial Windows driver is not packaged with DirectX® driver components, so it is not a suitable replacement for your everyday graphics driver.


NVidia also has beta drivers, but I don't think they have the same issue as AMD's.
Downside is, you need a 6xx/newer card.

Intel has a working Linux driver that
Intel wrote:
passes the Vulkan 1.0 Conformance Test Suite.
Mar 1, 2016 at 12:06pm
I am eagerly awaiting QVulkanWidget.
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