Vulkan Looks All But Confirmed For 2016 Launch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Vulkan Looks All But Confirmed For 2016 Launch

It looks all but confirmed that Vulkan will launch in early 2016 rather than making it out this calendar year as originally planned...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-No-Xmas-Look

[etam]

There's one thing I don't understand: What's the point of keeping the Vulcan API in secret before official release?

[Krysto]

It would've been nice to be ready 2-3 months before GDC, so graphics chips makers can tout "Vulkan support" for their new GPUs.

[Krysto]

There's one thing I don't understand: What's the point of keeping the Vulcan API in secret before official release?

Probably because it's still in flow. They don't want people to be disappointed when a feature that was in the 0.9 draft gets eliminated from the 1.0 version.

[humbug]

Let's see. 13 days left for Khronos to keep their word.

Regardless of when it's launched I hope it's a well coordinated launch to make a big splash.
Ideal scenario would be intel, AMD and Nvidia have launch day drivers ready for both windows and linux. And valve releases the dota 2 Vulkan beta on the same day.

[Min1123]

This is all starting to feel very OpenGL 3.0-like (promise a new clean spec, take several years, release the old spec with additions and deprecations all over, then actually release a kinda new spec with 3.1 a while later). I can understand the desire to get the spec right the first time and just have it grow off from there, but Khronos has been doing this for a while, and so they should know that something will go wrong and they'll have to mark it for deprecation in one release, then deprecate it and make the new way the standard in the next release to fix it.

Any direction you go though should fix a major problem, which is making something then forcing GPU manufacturers to hack around bad behavior in your program and in their drivers to get it to function nicely.

[Ancurio]

Probably because it's still in flow. They don't want people to be disappointed when a feature that was in the 0.9 draft gets eliminated from the 1.0 version.

That's not the case. Khronos confirmed during Siggraph (August) that the spec has long been frozen and is being transformed into textual form

[mannerov]

The info was already out.
he Anandtech article about AMD GPUOpen mentions they were told Vulkan would be released in early 2016.

[mrmcq2u]

https://twitter.com/KishontiI/status/669465995585695744

[blackout23]

https://twitter.com/KishontiI/status/669465995585695744

They're talking about their benchmarks.

https://twitter.com/KishontiI/status/669465995585695744

Everytime someone writes Vulkan with a c a small kitten dies.