Google's Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1 brings Imagination's updated GPU driver to the Pixel 10 series. I ran a before-and-after performance comparison.

After receiving his degree in Journalism & Media Communications from CSU in 2019, Erik began building his career in online media, and found his dream job when he joined Game Rant as a staff writer.

After nearly a decade, Vulkan is finally becoming the graphics standard in Android when Android 16 debuts sometime after April. Google highlights it as one way to enhance graphics, while the Android ...

The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1, the first big revision of its vendor-neutral, cross-platform GPU API. The new revision standardizes a handful of features that were previously offered as ...

At the moment, there is no easy way to test Vulkan versus OpenGL ES 3.1 on Android. My go to 3D engine Unreal Engine does not support the Android-24 API, so while Vulkan is technically supported, I ...

After a slow start, ray tracing continues to spread its wings. What started as a geeky Windows 10 feature now finds a home in the next-gen Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles as well, and on ...

After receiving his degree in Journalism & Media Communications from CSU in 2019, Erik began building his career in online media, and found his dream job when he joined Game Rant as a staff writer.

Unable to initialize Vulkan (vkEnumeratelnstanceExtension Properties failed.) You may not have a Vulkan driver installed, or an old driver on your machine may be ...

Vulkan—the open, cross-platform GPU API from the Khronos Group, the industry body that also develops OpenGL—is available on Windows, Linux, Android, the Nintendo Switch, and cloud systems, but it has ...