Raspberry Pi 4 and Vulkan API, reached a new important milestone

Source: HW Upgrade added 25th Nov 2020

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The development of the Vulkan driver for The latest Raspberry Pi is doing very well with passing compliance tests. The work is not yet completed, but it is proceeding well in view of a driver release that is getting closer and closer.

by Manolo De Agostini published , at 09: 21 in the Systems channel

Raspberry Vulkan

The development of the Vulkan driver for the ‘latest generation of Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400 and Compute Module 4) has reached a new important milestone : compliance has been demonstrated, i.e. a correct implementation of the standards.

For each standard, the Khronos Group that takes care of the development of the Vulkan API has created a large suite of tests (CTS, Conformance Test Suite) to be overcome, in the case of Vulkan 1.0 we speak of over 100. 000 test . The new result is important because marks the maturity of the driver and brings Vulkan closer to the latest generation Raspberry Pi.



The “Vulkan radial blur” demo running on Raspberry Pi

The development is not however, the team is “working on all fronts to expand Vulkan’s feature set, improve performance and fix bugs . , “said Iago Toral, who spent last year working on the Mesa graphics driver stack.

Vulkan API, more advanced than OpenGL, could offer new options to developers, while increasing the performance and efficiency of the latest generation of Raspberry Pi in different situations. At the moment it is not clear when the driver will be released, but if all goes well it should not be missing very much.