Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

The most successful game in crowdfunding history is giving up on Microsoft’s DirectX graphics platform to go all-in on Vulkan. Cloud Imperium Games, the developers of Star Citizen, recently said on ...

The best choice of Graphics API comes down to two key factors: how old your graphics card is and what kind of visual experience you want to have. In general, DirectX 11 is the best choice for anyone ...

Discover the ultimate showdown between DirectX 12 and Vulkan in Red Dead Redemption 2, as we push the capabilities of the RTX 2080 to highlight performance differences. This video meticulously ...

Graphics Cards I'm actually jealous of the workstation that gets to use this Maxsun graphics card containing two Intel Arc GPUs and 48 GB of VRAM Graphics Cards The end is probably nigh for full ...

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 ...

Baldur's Gate 3 is now out on PC. The game supports two APIs: Vulkan and Microsoft's DirectX 11. Since the difference between these two libraries isn't clear, many gamers are confused about what this ...

Futuremark has released a new segment of its popular 3DMark graphics testing suite called "API Overhead". The goal is simple: establish which CPU+GPU+API combination offers the best possible ...

Crytek's newly published roadmap for CryEngine reveals big features are not far off at all. First is DirectX 12 multi-GPU support, a complete DirectX 12 renderer, the possibility of support for NVIDIA ...

DirectX 12 isn’t the only graphics API seeing delays, as the Vulkan Working Group recently announced that the open-standard successor to OpenGL won’t hit its end of the year release target. Vulkan, ...

IO Interactive's lead render programmer Jonas Meyer will be hosting a talk at this year's GDC in March focusing on Hitman's DirectX 12-powered renderer. Though there've been whispers here and there ...

After installing the massive game that is Baldur’s Gate 3 and then opening it up, you’ll be faced with your first dilemma of the game — should I use DirectX 11 or Vulkan as your choice of graphics API ...