The Khronos Group has released the latest Vulkan specification 1.2.175. Among many of the new changes is the notable addition of the provisional extensions for the upcoming 'Vulkan Video' API.
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Valve's hugely popular DOTA 2 is due to receive an update next week which will bring support for the newly released Vulkan API. The Vulkan API is better suited to run over multiple cores than OpenGL.
The group behind the popular OpenGL standard has released the first version of their low-level graphics API Vulkan for mobile, console and PC graphics, based on AMD's Mantle.