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> Microsoft Windows -> Supports Vulkan natively first class.

Erm, no? Vulkan is completely implemented in GPU vendor driver DLLs, Microsoft has no part in this. The only first class 3D APIs on Windows are the D3D APIs.

In reality, Vulkan doesn't matter much except on Android and Linux.




I agree that Microsoft has no part in this. But, any computers which run Microsoft Windows has GPUs made by these Manufacturers: Nvidia,AMD,Intel and Qualcomm and all these Manufacturers have good Vulkan Drivers in Windows.

Thus said, even though Microsoft doesn't support Vulkan officially, you can tell that Vulkan has first class support on Microsoft Windows given that all GPU drivers have good first class Vulkan support and all Vulkan Applications run just fine on Windows.

> In reality, Vulkan doesn't matter much except on Android and Linux.

No, it matters. Vulkan is the first modern cross platform Graphics API which can run across Linux,Windows,Android,MacOS,Switch to name a few. No similar API does exist currently which offers high performance along with being portable.




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