Somehow none of this MoltenVK stuff makes any comparison to Metal proper. I wonder if that’s intentional.
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A survey of why developers use whichever APIs they use would be super interesting. I don’t understand why some PC games have added Vk backends. My only guess is ideology.
Wait, you’ve seen the benchmarks comparing GL and Vk in practice. How is pursuing a 30+% reduction in frame time mere ideology? Whether third-party (indies atop Unity) or first-party (id Tech 6 team), answers will likely be similar (and performance-centric).
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“I don’t understand why some PC games have added Vk backends” as opposed to D3D12 backends. Haven’t seen any reports saying Vk is faster than D3D12, and the number of machines with Vk but not D3D12 is nearly (exactly?) 0
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That’s kind of the point I’m making; it’s a 3-way competition between Vk, MTL, and D3D12. Comparing to other APIs is irrelevant
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True. Interpreting this generously, we might assume the point of such a comparison to be “look how much better these new APIs are [than GL].” Less ingenuously, it’s the easiest way to make Vk look *really good*.
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