Vulkan compute shaders are roughly on the level of OpenGL compute shaders, which never were as flexible and general as CUDA and OpenCL kernels. Even though com

Vulkan compute shaders are roughly on the level of OpenGL compute shaders, which never were as flexible and general as CUDA and OpenCL kernels. Even though compute in Vulkan appears as a first class citizen instead of the weird tacked on feature it is in OpenGL, the design is still focused very much on embedding compute steps in a process that is designed to deliver images to a screen. And that uses a lot more opaque object representations like textures and samplers. GLSL has also always been a very restrictive language and that carried over into SPIR-V.