Graphics API Vulkan now features official ray tracing support

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This news comes straight from the horse's mouth, thanks to an announcement post published by Khronos (the developer being Vulkan) today. In the post, Khronos says it's successfully released the "final versions" of the set of Vulkan, GLSL, and SPIR-V extension specifications that "seamlessly integrate ray tracing into the existing Vulkan framework."

 

Khronos says this is a significant milestone, as it's the industry's first open, cross-vendor, and cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Since the only real way to harness RT features thus far has been through Nvidia's RTX GPUs and DX12 Ultimate, we certainly agree with Khronos' assessment here.

Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/87716-graphics-api-vulkan-now-features-full-ray-tracing.html

 

 

Neat!

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Lifes just getting better as a gamer.

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...may Vulkan live long and prosper. Also, someone talk Microsoft into adding Vulkan API support for FlightSim2020