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		higherpurpose on March 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Former Nvidia Dev's Thoughts on Vulkan/Mantle We don't know yet whether Apple will adopt Vulkan or not. Vulkan is not just a direct competitor to Metal, but also an evolution of OpenGL ES, and so far Apple has adopted OpenGL ES.

rys on March 13, 2015 [–]

Vulkan is purposely not an evolution of OpenGL ES. It's a clean break from that API and shares nothing in common.

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