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 ...
Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...
The Doom series popularised the first-person shooter genre and is still held in high regard decades after the original title’s release. While hyperbole is often used to describe games, it’s evidently ...
What is a graphics API? API is short for application programming interface. When it comes to video games on the PC, developers almost always use one of the popular APIs to bring the games to life on ...
Since it launched in 2016, Vulkan has been positioned as a DirectX killer. It’s been a slow start, but the open software interface has gained a lot of momentum over the past six years, showing up in ...
API, for those who are stumped by the word means Application programming interface. For those who weren’t stumped by the word, well, kudos to you. The official jargon defines it as a set of subroutine ...
An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of subroutine definitions, communication protocols, and tools that are used for building software. Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) is a ...
Futuremark, the Underwriters Laboratories-owned benchmarking specialist previously known as MadOnion.com, has announced that it is working on new benchmark packages targeting the DirectX 12 and Vulkan ...
The new Vulkan API from Khronos officially unveiled today, and it promises to bring low-overhead gaming to mobile developers in a cross-platform, cross-GPU way. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...
Hey there arsians. I program a bit in DirectX making some small trivial games and I was wondering about the differences between DirectX and OpenGL graphics hardware, which leads me to my ...