Vulkan is coming to Raspberry Pi: first triangle
Following on from our recent announcement that Raspberry Pi 4 is OpenGL ES 3.1 conformant, we have some more news to share on the graphics front. We have started work on a much requested feature: an open-source Vulkan driver!
Standards body Khronos describes Vulkan as "a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs". The Vulkan API has been designed to better accommodate modern GPUs and address common performance bottlenecks in OpenGL, providing graphics developers with new means to squeeze the best performance out of the hardware.
Be warned that the effort could take months or even years.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 04 2020, @02:45AM
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=256646&start=250 [raspberrypi.org]
It's rumored that the 1.2 hardware revision fixes the USB-C issue, but there's no official confirmation of that and it could be difficult to find the latest revision without running code on it.
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