Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.1

[Posted March 7, 2018 by ris]

The Khronos Group has announced the release of the Vulkan GPU API version 1.1 and SPIR-V 1.3 specifications. "Version 1.1 expands Vulkan’s core functionality with developer-requested features, such as subgroup operations, while integrating a wide range of proven extensions from Vulkan 1.0. Khronos will also release full Vulkan 1.1 conformance tests into open source and AMD, Arm, Imagination, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA and Qualcomm have implemented conformant Vulkan 1.1 drivers."

Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.1

Posted Mar 8, 2018 12:50 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

As an addendum, 1.1 support for the Intel ('anv') and AMD ('radv') Mesa drivers was merged the same day. It won't be a part of 18.0, but will ship with the next release.