Khronos Group has announced Vulkan 1.4.
Khronos Group has announced Vulkan 1.4.
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Khronos Group launches Vulkan 1.4 API for cross-platform graphics and compute

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Khronos Group, an open consortium of tech companies focused on interoperability standards, has announced the release of Vulkan 1.4.

It’s the latest version of its royalty-free, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute applications programming interface (API), and it makes it easy for 3D games and other software to run across hardware platforms.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.