Vulkan is a new 3D graphics API from the makers of OpenGL. It’s an open standard that the developers at Khronos say will be more efficient than OpenGL, and it will also give developers more control ...

Early reviews of the Intel Arc graphics cards have not been bursting with praise. We only have reputable third-party reviews of the entry level Arc A380 thus far, but even with suitably lowered ...

We recently had the chance to sit down with some folks at NVIDIA to discuss high performance graphics APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With all of the noise recently surrounding AMD’s Mantle ...

What does the new API mean for graphics performance? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Doom showed up back in May, I ran a ...

Arm has introduced its Neural Graphics SDK for Game Engines and Neural Super Sampling (NSS) plugin for Unreal Engine 5.4 (UE5.4). The SDK is an open-source, engine-agnostic library. It is part of the ...

In brief: Vulkan has become a strong and popular contender to Microsoft's DirectX 12 graphics API. It's favored by developers (and even players, such as myself) for its superior performance (when well ...

Zed co-founder Max Brunsfeld has explained why the Windows port of the Rust-based editor is taking so long – illustrating the friction facing developers of cross-platform applications when including ...

What is a graphics API? API is short for application programming interface. When it comes to video games on the PC, developers almost always use one of the popular APIs to bring the games to life on ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform. The news that the .NET UI framework Uno Platform project ...

Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you’re the sort of person who gets excited about graphics APIs. iOS 8 introduced Metal last year, and OS X El Capitan will bring the ...