PowerVR SDK 4.0 Released, Preps Developers For Vulkan

Written by Michael Larabel in Vulkan on 23 December 2015 at 12:25 PM EST. Add A Comment
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Imagination Technologies announced the release today of the PowerVR Graphics SDK 4.0.

Prominent to PowerVR Graphics SDK 4.0 is a new framework for helping developers move from OpenGL ES to Vulkan. Vulkan isn't being released until sometime in 2016 but with being a Khronos member, Imagination has been heavily involved and investing in Khronos with their SDK along with their various seminars about Vulkan.

This PowerVR SDK 4.0 framework for assisting in Vulkan usage is used by Imagination's various code samples. This SDK 4.0 release also features updates to many PowerVR Tools and more. This 4.0 release is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms.

More details about PowerVR SDK 4.0 can be found via the Imagination Tech blog.
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