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Title    Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available for Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support
Date    Thursday January 14 2021, @08:22PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the live-long-and-prosper dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/01/14/0210246

takyon writes:

Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support

The Khronos Group and LunarG have announced an updated Vulkan SDK that includes now formally providing support for Apple platforms, including Apple Silicon systems via Universal Binaries.

With Apple still not officially backing Vulkan but preferring their own closed ecosystem of the Metal API, Vulkan on macOS/iOS platforms continue to rely on the MoltenVK portability layer that ultimately routes Vulkan over the Metal drivers.

With the Vulkan SDK now being formally available for Apple platforms, the hope is to ease Vulkan-on-macOS development by games / engine developers and other application developers.

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  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support" - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-SDK-For-Apple
  3. "MoltenVK" - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=MoltenVK
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=46747
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