Release of Vulkan

Vulkan is a cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and parallelized computing. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU. It is designed to support a wide variety of GPUs, CPUs and operating systems, and modern multi-core CPUs also.

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Which happened first?

• Release of Vulkan and Release of macOS Sierra happened in the same year
• Release of Vulkan and Release of Android Nougat happened in the same year
• Release of Vulkan and Release of IOS 10 happened in the same year
• Release of Vulkan and Release of KDE neon happened in the same year
• Release of Vulkan happened 1 year after Release of Android Auto

Timeline

1. Release of Android AutoMarch 19, 2015
2. Release of Android NougatAugust 22, 2016
3. Release of IOS 10September 13, 2016
4. Release of KDE neonJune 8, 2016
5. Release of macOS SierraSeptember 20, 2016
6. Release of Vulkan (this page)February 16, 2016

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