Category Archives: Vulkan

Batch, batch, batch: Respect the classics!

Posted on June 2, 2020 by Scali

Today I randomly stumbled upon some discussions about DirectX 12, Mantle and whatnot. It seems a lot of people somehow think that the whole idea of reducing draw call overhead was new for Mantle and DirectX 12. While some commenters … Continue reading →

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DirectX 12 and Vulkan: what it is, and what it isn’t

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Scali

I often read comments in the vein of: “… but vendor A’s hardware is designed more for DX12/Vulkan than vendor B’s”. It’s a bit more complicated than that, because it is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem. So I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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FutureMark’s Time Spy: some people still don’t get it

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Scali

Today I read a review of AMD’s new Radeon RX470 on Tweakers.net, by Jelle Stuip. He used Time Spy as a benchmark, and added the following description: About 3DMark Time Spy has recently been some controversy, because it is found … Continue reading →

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GeForce GTX1060: nVidia brings Pascal to the masses

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Scali

Right, we can be short about the GTX1060… It does exactly what you’d expect: it scales down Pascal as we know it from the GTX1080 and GTX1070 to a smaller, cheaper chip, aiming at the mainstream market. The card is … Continue reading →

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