One of the biggest pitfalls of portable gaming machines is their relative lack of portability; even if you can put up with the bulk of a gaming laptop, discrete graphics cards don't sip power -- they ...

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Most development effort in graphics drivers these days, whether you’re talking about Nvidia, Intel, or AMD, is focused on new APIs like DirectX 12 or Vulkan, increasingly advanced upscaling ...

Intel showcased the benefits of the Vulkan API during SIGGRAPH 2015 and exemplified its viability as a mainstream alternative to OpenGL. The Stardust graphics demonstration was conducted on an Intel ...

At Siggraph 2014, the Khronos Group has announced both OpenGL 4.5 and, more excitingly, the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. OpenGL 4.5, except for some new Direct3D 11 emulation features for easier ...

The Khronos Group has announced the launch of the OpenGL 4.6 graphics application programming interface (API), which the working group's chair describes as 'the most feature rich version of OpenGL yet ...

LONDON — The Khronos Group, an industry consortium focused on developing multimedia standards and application programming interfaces (APIs), has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.0 specification; ...

Two new implementations is expected to come soon that will be a boon for PC gamers. Following Mantle API, DirectX and OpenGL will start offering low-level access to provide more efficient ways of ...

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AMD’s Mantle 1.0 is indeed dead, but like a Jedi, it looks to have risen in the form of the Kronos Group’s new open standard, cross-platform Vulkan API (but without Obi Wan’s weird blue glow). As I ...