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Vulkan API on S6?

furtin
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As far as I know, the Vulkan API only works with Snapdragons but is there any chance its coming to the S6?
Would it even make any sense?
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Marco3key
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@Oliver Collings:
>Pardon my total lack of knowledge, but will these API's be available to older phones such as the Galaxy S6? Or are they hardware dependent?

Yes.. The S6 will get it. Any GPU that supports OpenGL ES 3.1 is capable of running Vulkan. This includes any devices like the Nexus 6 which have Qualcomm Adreno 4xx GPUs and above; the S7 has a 530. Sadly of note we are losing the Nexus 5 and devices of that generation and below, etc.

I'm a dev that is going to be aggressively adopting Vulkan. I've got a complex video engine I'll be rebuilding with Vulkan & Java 8 on Android N+ (previously featured on Android Central: (http://www.androidcentral.com/typhonrt- ... ing-real...) I'll reply to points made in the post from my perspective of having used all versions of OpenGL ES on Android:
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ddanjovi
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Hey man good news, the day has finally arrived vulkan is finally here on the s6 edge!.
I managed to compile a vulkan demo with unreals software and managed to get it up and running on the s6 edge.
Feel free to give it a try. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzCHRy_rkc