There are a few things off the top of my head that I think Vulkan offers based on reading through countless things online (and I'm guessing this certainly is not all the advantages, or whether these are even true): I'm assuming all the things with OpenGL that cause grief (ex: framebuffer and shader program changes) are going to be equally as painful in either API. I'm assuming Vulkan does not magically make things in the pipeline faster (as in shading in triangles is going to be approximately the same between OpenGL and Vulkan for the same buffers and uniforms and shader). People will throw around terms like 'OpenGL is slow, Vulkan is way faster!' or 'Low power consumption!' and say nothing more on the subject.īecause of this, it makes it difficult for me to evaluate whether or not the problems I face are something Vulkan can help me with, or if my problems are due to volume and computation (and Vulkan would in such a case not help me much).

I was looking up what benefits Vulkan offers me, but with a lot of googling I wasn't able to come across exactly what gives performance boosts. However I don't want to make the jump without being informed about it. I'm looking into whether it's better for me to stay with OpenGL or consider a Vulkan migration for intensive bottlenecked rendering.

Opengl 4.6 api specification