what is vulkan?
What is Vulkan? From the consortium that brought you OpenGL, Vulkan is a new graphics API for developers who want or need deeper hardware control. Designed with âlow-overheadâ capabilities, Vulkan gives devs total control over the performance, efficiency, and capabilities of Radeonâ¢ GPUs and multi-core CPUs. Compared to OpenGL, Vulkan substantially reduces âAPI overhead,â which is background work a CPU must do to interpret what a game is asking of the hardware. Reducing this overhead gives hardware much more time to spend on delivering meaningful features, performance and image quality.