| >what hardware that is currently shipping will support vulkan Khronos has committed to publishing an API which can be implemented on all OpenGL ES 3.1 capable hardware. >how long after announcement will vendors have drivers out (weeks/months/years?). AMD, NVIDIA, and intel have all committed to timelines, or do not need to. AMD developed Mantle, and has been developing their Vulkan stack since the beginning. They haven't set a date, but I doubt it'll be more than a month past public API release. NVIDIA has committed to same-day delivery of a compliant driver. The day that the spec comes out, NVIDIA says they will have a driver. For intel, I'm not certain about their proprietary drivers. I do know, however, that Valve and LunarG have developed an intel Vulkan driver. They are committed to a same-day release with source code. So no: not years, probably not months, maybe not even weeks. |