After a year's time, the long awaited Vulkan api is now released. One of the first games that will implement this is The Talos Principle. The Nvidia Shield K1 tablet is also confirmed to get an update with Vulkan support. Here is some info from Nvidia in regards to Vulkan. http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/02/16/vulkan-graphics-api/ The actual press release from the developers of the API, the Khronos group, is in the link in the top of this post.