Khronos Vulkan API runs demo nearly twice as fast as OpenGL

[canopus72]

Nice to see intel leaching off AMD's brainchild called Mantle. AMD did the hard graft and now intel is reaping the benefits.

[jigger]

OMG, that must be at least 5000 Gnomes per second!

This is looking very promising.

[DanceswithUnix]

Nice to see intel leaching off AMD's brainchild called Mantle. AMD did the hard graft and now intel is reaping the benefits.

To be fair, Intel are putting a lot of effort in and seem to be open sourcing their drivers under Linux.

[shaithis]

To be fair, Intel are putting a lot of effort in and seem to be open sourcing their drivers under Linux.

I think the way the market is starting to head, they would be silly not to. They are seeing opportunities in the steambox, laptop gaming and future console markets and as they have missed out on mobile and arguably the current-gen consoles, it makes sense to not miss this potential boat....especially as they haven't done much since SandyBridge other than beefing up the iGPU!

I am still utterly baffled by how long it's taking AMD to understand the importance of Linux drivers.

[DanceswithUnix]

I am still utterly baffled by how long it's taking AMD to understand the importance of Linux drivers.

My worry is that they do understand the importance of Linux drivers, and this is just the best they can do

They have published the signed binary firmware blobs required for Fury already so open source drivers can use them. I gather Nvidia still don't allow 9xx series cards to work on open source so you have to use their binary blob. So the intent seems better from AMD, just the execution sucks.

Really, really sucks.