Khronos plans to merge OpenCL and Vulkan into a single API

[WYP]

Khronos has now revealed plans to merge OpenCL and Vulkan into a single API, merging graphics and compute into a single open standard.



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[AlienALX]

Fantastic news, now let's see the goods !!!

 

[Dark NighT]

Oh Yes this is what we need!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Awesome news. This is going to benefit AMD a massive amount.

 

[steverebo]

I can imagine vega is going to spank pascal in vulkcan titles so this merger could push Nvidia into releasing volta sooner as its supposedly going to have massive async compute performance increases over pascal