Comment by corysama

9 hours ago

Seems like a good time to mention that LunarG’s Vulkan-on-Metal wrapper reached Vulkan 1.4 conformance recently.

https://www.lunarg.com/the-state-of-vulkan-on-apple-oct-2026...

Now we need Mesa’s OpenGL-on-Vulkan to be production-ready when running on KosmicKrisp

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html

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Geezus_42  7 hours ago

I can't imagine what the nested layers of emulation would do to performance. Lol

  • hurricanepootis  5 hours ago

    I think it has the potential to be pretty good, especially on modern hardware. If using DXVK or VKD3D is any indication, I think the performance losses can be minimized. Plus, I've used Zink before on Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver, and it's pretty good.

  • rbanffy  6 hours ago

    The hits would come from format transformations. When the math gets to the metal, there is little difference.