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Metal predates Vulkan by over a year. Vulkan probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Metal.
by buzzert 6y ago
Metal predates Vulkan by over a year. Vulkan probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for Metal.
- freehunter 6y agoCorrect. Vulkan was announced at GDC in 2015 and released in 2016, Metal was released in 2014.
- ben-schaaf 6y agoVulkan is built on top of AMD Mantle, which predates Metal. There's not much reason to think that when they started working on Vulkan in 2014 that they were even trying to compete with metal, considering it was still iOS only at that point.
- buzzert 6y agoI don't think anyone sees them as competitors, in fact that's exactly my point. I think the Vulkan/Mantle/Metal developers all had the same idea.