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Judging by the Steam Hardware Survey those specs also encompass quite a huge amount of the PC gaming community. basically any GPU purchased after late 2009/early 2010.

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OpenGL 4.3 support extended back to the Nvidia GeForce 400 series and the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series-a.k.a. On the PC side, that equates to OpenGL 4.3, released in August of 2012. That basically means any GPU that can do compute shaders.вЂќ вЂњAny hardware capable of supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 will be capable of supporting Vulkan. We have a very specific goal,вЂќ says Trevett. Just like DirectX 12, Khronos is hoping to extend compatibility back a few hardware generations, which means youвЂ™ll potentially notice a performance increase even on your old hardware once the API is officially released and introduced in new games. WeвЂ™re all solving the same problem in a similar kind of way.вЂќДЄnd good news for basically everyone: You probably wonвЂ™t need new hardware to take advantage of Vulkan. вЂњDirectX 12 and Vulkan and Mantle are going to be similar in the next generation. вЂњPorting from DirectX 12 to Vulkan will be easier than porting from DirectX 12 to OpenGL,вЂќ he continues. On the other hand, thereвЂ™s good news for Linux gamers who are starting to see more and more big-name games on their open-source operating systems of choice with the promise of Steam Machines hanging in the air: вЂњPorting between Vulkan and DirectX 12 we suspect wonвЂ™t be too hard,вЂќ says Trevett. OpenGL, despite its cross-platform abilities, has been battling against DirectX for years now, and thatвЂ™s undoubtedly going to continue with Vulkan. вЂњItвЂ™s never a perfect world,вЂќ Trevett jokes, вЂњand of course DirectX is going to be a significant API on Windows, no doubt.вЂќ Steam Machines would be dead before they even got started. If Vulkan wasnвЂ™t created, then the open-standard graphics movement would be beaten into the ground by newer, more powerful technologies like DirectX 12. Vulkan essentially invokes the have-your-cake-and-eat-it adage: Khronos can continue to support those who need a more padded graphics API with a long legacy while still courting game developers who need a more flexible, stripped-down solution. On the other hand, вЂњIf we didnвЂ™t have Vulkan, OpenGL would begin to look more and more out of date for the people who want this kind of functionality versus Mantle and DirectX 12,вЂќ concedes Trevett. Got that? While DirectX, Mantle, and now Vulkan tend to get a lot of attention due to their roles in the gaming community, Trevett is quick to draw a line between gaming and other GPU uses-many of which have relied on OpenGL for years because itвЂ™s a more general-use API. ThereвЂ™s going to be business imperatives that we not just maintain those APIs-we evolve those APIs. TheyвЂ™re enabling access to billions of devices. вЂњVulkan is nice and new and shiny, but of course itвЂ™s just at the beginning of its development cycle.

вЂњThis is one of the key messages here,вЂќ says Trevett. OpenGL controls the GPU the way it thinks you want to use it, not necessarily how you actually want to use it.

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Not only does it have 25 years of legacy fluff built into it, plus all sorts of baggage due to its usage in non-gaming applications, but the API itself prevents you from taking full advantage of the GPU due to issues like context management, error tracking, and the like. Saying OpenGL is вЂњinefficientвЂќ is a bit harsh, but in terms of gaming itвЂ™s not far from the mark. ThatвЂ™s an important distinction, for reasons weвЂ™ll get into later. Vulkan is a new cross-platform open standard aimed specifically at video games. ThereвЂ™s such a diversity of platforms coming, if every one of these platforms has its own specific API the world is going to be a very sad place.вЂќ вЂњThe number of platforms that want to use GPUs-itвЂ™s not just PCs and mobile phones anymore. вЂњItвЂ™s important that thereвЂ™s an open standard, cross-platform API that is up-to-date and truly modern and is providing state-of-the-art levels of performance,вЂќ says Trevett.

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