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MoltenVK is a Vulkan Portability implementation. It layers a subset of the high-performance, industry-standard Vulkan graphics and compute API over Apple's Metal graphics framework, enabling Vulkan applications to run on macOS, iOS and tvOS.

57 mentions on Hacker News by 56 people: 4 stories, 53 comments · first 2018-04-04 · latest 2026-10-25

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  1. …should support Vulkan natively through their GPU drivers. [1]: https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx [2]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK [3]: https://github.com/Chabloom/VulkanOnD3D12
    comment by moosingin3space · 2018-06-04 · in Apple introduces macOS Mojave
  2. There is also MoltenVK https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK for Vulkan on metal...
    comment by gnufied · 2018-06-04 · in Apple introduces macOS Mojave
  3. Apples lack of support for Vulkan is less of an issue now that MoltenVK is available: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK Metal is low-level enough that Vulkan can be implemented on top of it without too much overhead.
    comment by jsheard · 2018-04-04 · in SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines