Intel just shipped a new Windows driver for its integrated Iris 500 and 600 GPUs which finally supports the Vulkan graphics API. This is wonderful news for a number of people.

If you have a consumer Skylake or Kaby Lake processor and you run Windows 10, you’re covered. Most Vulkan-capable apps right now are high-end or experimental games, so this won’t make everything instantly wonderful, but it does mean you’re now the low bar of Vulkan desktop performance, and the large install base makes you a highly attractive target for developers if they can optimize their titles for you. And Vulkan is great for optimizing!

If you’re a developer, you now have a gigantic target market to develop Vulkan-enabled games for. No matter how popular they…

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