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Originally Posted by QBhd
Vulkan isn't NVidia... It's Khronos and both AMD and NVidia have beta drivers out for it now... AMD was earlier this week.
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Furthermore, Vulkan is mostly based on ... Mantle. Being proprietary and vendor-locked, mantle failed to get enough traction. But then GPU devs, game devs and somesuch joined their efforts under the umbrella of Chronos group and AMD proposed to use mantle as starting point. Because it was already here and has been designed in joint efforts with some gamedevs, so it has been almost like what they want. It has been decided so, and therefore Vulkan is a cross-platform and vendor neutral thing, heavily based on Mantle.
When Vulkan specs were not available, there was unofficial advice to read mantle specs instead, because Vulkan is going to be very similar. Of course it is not "nvidia", PowerVR already announced their new GPUs would do it (yeah, it coming soon on new android devices!). AMD is almost there as well, Intel also fiddles with it, etc (at least they already got some prototype driver for Linux).