vulkan

Due to industry demand, Khronos is initiating the development of a solution to enable 3D applications that are portable across Vulkan, DX12 and Metal https://www.khronos.org/3dportability

Holy hell you guys. If we're lucky, Skyrim SE and Fallout 4 will get a Vulkan renderer. And if we're suuuuper lucky? Bethesda will backport Vulkan to New Vegas and fam. That'd be the day, eh? https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/836688120846381059...

http://www.pcgameshardware.de/DirectX-12-Software-255525/Specials/Direct-X-11-Vulkan-1218975/

http://techreport.com/news/31116/unity-engine-adds-vulkan-support-for-a-big-performance-boost

So in another thread @richaron claimed that Mantle "has inspired and evolved into two of the most radical graphics APIs in history." @BFG10K disputed this, saying that DX12 was in development years before Mantle "even existed" (implying that Mantle thus couldn't have inspired/influenced it), and...

I call dibs nvidia will unveil its own Async Compute implementation called AsyncWorks with Volta and buried AMD/RTG with the new and improved GameFinallyWorks program. /s Joking aside, how are your thought on nvidia's upcoming Volta Architecture? It will have a substantial performance boost...