Game Engine on Vulkan 01-preface [Vulkan游戏引擎开发 01-引言]

What is Vulkan

  Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and computing API. Vulkan targets high-performance realtime 3D graphics applications such as video games and interactive media across all platforms. Compared to OpenGL and Direct3D 11, and like Direct3D 12 and Metal, Vulkan is intended to offer higher performance and more balanced CPU/GPU usage. Other major differences from Direct3D 11 (and prior) and OpenGL are Vulkan being a considerably lower level API and offering parallel tasking. Vulkan also has the ability to render 2D graphics applications. In addition to its lower CPU usage, Vulkan is also able to better distribute work among multiple CPU cores.

  Vulkan是一个跨平台的2D和3D绘图应用程序接口（API），最早由科纳斯组织在2015年游戏开发者大会（GDC）上发表。
  科纳斯最先把VulkanAPI称为“次世代OpenGL行动”（next generation OpenGL initiative）或“glNext”， [1] 但在正式宣布Vulkan之后这些名字就没有再使用了。就像OpenGLÿ