More High Performance Graphics Games Coming To Mac Ios Through Vulkan Support

Mac, iPhone and iPad users should soon see a bunch of new high-performance graphics games coming to the platforms, thanks to support for the powerful graphics API, Vulkan …

Vulkan is an open, cross-platform GPU API already supported by Android smartphones, Windows, Linux, games consoles, VR kit and more. It’s able to use graphics chips from all the major players, including Intel, Nvidia, AMD and ARM.

Khronos Group – a consortium dedicated to the creation of open standards for the graphics industry – has made MoltenVK available to macOS and iOS. This allows developers to easily port their existing Windows and Android games to Macs and iOS devices.

As Arstechnica notes, Valve has already been experimenting with a macOS version of Dota 2 (above).

The site says that MoltenVK does lack a few Vulkan features, but the emphasis is on giving predictable performance with very low processing overhead, ensuring that games run smoothly.