OpenUSD now supports Vulkan

Universal Scene Description's HgiVulkan backend is intended to make Vulkan a 'more compelling option' for tools developers.

Tuesday, August 13th, 2024

Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Vulkan now does ray tracing

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Eye candy: Epic's ProtoStar Vulkan graphics demo

Get a glimpse of mobile games to come with this cool UE4 demo created using the new graphics API.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2016

Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available

See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.

Wednesday, February 17th, 2016

Compare Vulkan to OpenGL ES in 'gnomes per second'

Imagination Technologies' demo of graphics APIs draws 40,000 gnomes in real time on a PowerVR G6430 mobile GPU.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action

Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

Discover 5 (plus 5) key features for CG artists in Godot 4.6

Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

UVPackmaster 4 for Blender is out

Popular GPU-accelerated UV packing add on gets new Dynamic Tiles system and more texel density controls. See all the changes.

Monday, January 19th, 2026

Sneak peek: the new FLIP fluid solver in Insydium's NeXus

See the neat new liquid simulation tools in the GPU-based Cinema 4D particle effects add-on, ahead of their release next month.

Thursday, November 27th, 2025

Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 11.1

Check out the new features in the texture painting software, including a Ribbon path for flowing patterns or text seamlessly over a 3D model.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025

Sneak peek: GPU-accelerated smoke and fire in NeXus

Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.

Friday, October 17th, 2025

Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Godot 4.5

Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine. including updates to lighting, shading and animation.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025