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		nottorp on March 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX sup... Isn't Vulkan AMD only though?

glaze on March 19, 2017 | [–]

No. Mantle, on which Vulkan is based on, was AMD only. AMD gave it to Khronos and it evolved into Vulkan.

hansjorg on March 19, 2017 | [–]

Vulkan is based on Mantle from AMD, but the code was donated to Khronos. Both Nvidia and Intel have Vulkan drivers.

vetinari on March 20, 2017 | [–]

Does Intel have a vk driver?

AFAIK, they only have a Linux one, but only for Broadwell and newer. Do you know something about the Windows driver?

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