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Very interesting, in our forums Krzyslaw spotted that over at laptopvideo2go there is a 358.66 driver link that shows support for Vulkan, Pascal and Volta ? Three pretty big denominators eh ?
We'll focus on Vulkan in this news item primarily as that indicates that Nvidia is adding the upcoming low-level 3D graphics API from Khronos. Vulkan is the followup for OpenGL and as many of you know, the core foundation for Vulkan, is AMD's Mantle.
It is good to see that Nvidia is willing the jump onto this bandwagon, as only when things get broadly and openly supported, they can be a success. AMD did retire Mantle due to DirectX 12 and the lack of software vendor support. They pretty much handed to code to Khronos for them to develop. The 358 series drivers also show CUDA code inclusions as well as support for upcoming NVIDIA GPU architectures, Pascal and Volta.
More here in our forums where you can find a download link as well. Nvidia surely is a busy bee alright.
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#5183342 Posted on: 11/05/2015 08:31 AM
Hmm. Still not sure this is really coming, little to no information besides somebody claiming that there's support in the driver. With all cautiousness, I believe it when I see it.
Hmm. Still not sure this is really coming, little to no information besides somebody claiming that there's support in the driver. With all cautiousness, I believe it when I see it.
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#5183407 Posted on: 11/05/2015 11:43 AM
Mantle i mean "Vulkan" finally comes to nVidia
Mantle i mean "Vulkan" finally comes to nVidia
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#5183410 Posted on: 11/05/2015 11:56 AM
You need no screenshots. Just get driver, take all imports/exports for all libraries and look for new special stuff.
Hmm. Still not sure this is really coming, little to no information besides somebody claiming that there's support in the driver. With all cautiousness, I believe it when I see it.
You need no screenshots. Just get driver, take all imports/exports for all libraries and look for new special stuff.
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#5184073 Posted on: 11/06/2015 08:20 AM
I'm pretty sure John Carmack is having an orgasm right about now.
I'm pretty sure John Carmack is having an orgasm right about now.
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#5184092 Posted on: 11/06/2015 09:15 AM
I don't need screenshots, I need to see it working properly
Besides that, would it even offer major gaines to nvidia compared to dx12?
You need no screenshots. Just get driver, take all imports/exports for all libraries and look for new special stuff.
I don't need screenshots, I need to see it working properly
Besides that, would it even offer major gaines to nvidia compared to dx12?
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#5184108 Posted on: 11/06/2015 09:49 AM
This actually made me lol, well the geek in me sure did LOL
I'm pretty sure John Carmack is having an orgasm right about now.
This actually made me lol, well the geek in me sure did LOL
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#5184129 Posted on: 11/06/2015 10:16 AM
I don't need screenshots, I need to see it working properly
Besides that, would it even offer major gaines to nvidia compared to dx12?
We may see some crazy things. Effects, and complex geometries with very little HW power required. Same as some products of demoscene.
(that much mobile tech demos shown)
My guess is kind of funny, but I see intel to be 1st one on PC to have it running well. To promote their mobile platforms.
I don't need screenshots, I need to see it working properly
Besides that, would it even offer major gaines to nvidia compared to dx12?
We may see some crazy things. Effects, and complex geometries with very little HW power required. Same as some products of demoscene.
(that much mobile tech demos shown)
My guess is kind of funny, but I see intel to be 1st one on PC to have it running well. To promote their mobile platforms.
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This is quite exciting, considering that the Vulkan API is the one that almost everyone supports and can support, not to mention being able to target pretty much any platform with.
It's always nice to see it get to the point where stuff starts to slip out, they're clearly being very through with this.
I know that emulator developers are very interested in developing Vulkan renderers.