Vulkan for android

[jos]

Vulkan is being designed from the ground up to minimize CPU overhead in the driver, and allow your application to control GPU operation more directly. Vulkan also enables better parallelization by allowing multiple threads to perform work such as command buffer construction at once. provides an extensive open source test suite for identifying problems in drivers so that they can be fixed, creating a more robust and reliable experience for both developers and end users. For Vulkan, we’ll not only develop similar tests for use in the Android CTS, but we’ll also contribute them to Khronos for use in Vulkan’s own open source Conformance Test Suite. We’ll be working hard to help create, test, and ship Vulkan, but at the same time, we’re also going to contribute to and support OpenGL ES. As a developer, you’ll be able to choose which API is right for you: the simplicity of OpenGL ES, or the explicit control of Vulkan. We’re committed to providing an excellent developer experience, no matter which API you choose.

 

 

GPU is becoming more important than CPU as CPU can offload a lot of processing..I hope we will get a better graphics core for mobiles in future.

Source: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/08/low-overhead-rendering-with-vulkan.html

[Agent181]

Like battery wasn't bad enough already...

[Humbug]

Like battery wasn't bad enough already...

This will improve CPU efficiency for a given job.

[Agent181]

This will improve CPU efficiency for a given job.

For a job but not the rest

[Humbug]

For a job but not the rest

CPU power draw will be lower for sure. GPU power draw can only be higher in situations where we are comparing against a CPU bottlenecked openGL ES workload which resulted in the GPU being underutilized. But even in such cases the reduced CPU draw may compensate overall. It's an efficiency gain for sure.

[Doobeedoo]

We simply need new type of batteries already. It's sad.