Qualcomm will also be releasing a community edition of user-mode Vulkan driver binaries for Adreno A4xx and A5xx GPUs† soon. Qualcomm is also announcing upcoming support for Vulkan in QTI’s developer tools, including Snapdragon Profiler and the Adreno SDK. (QTI), has announced support for Vulkan™ starting with the Adreno 530 GPU in the Snapdragon 820 processor. Its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm is on the Board of Promoters for Khronos Group. Shared Virtual memory that enables simultaneous data sharing between the OpenCL host and the GPU.Vulkan enables the next generation of graphics performance by adding multi-threaded command buffer generation and explicit control of advanced graphics capabilities within Snapdragon’s Adreno GPUs A530 will be the first GPU to support new Vulkan API.Advanced API support, including OpenGL ES 3.2† to help enable more-complex and more-efficient mobile 3D graphics for apps and games.Up to 40% faster General-Purpose GPU (GPGPU) performance.In comparison with the predecessor Adreno 430 GPU*.The Adreno 530 GPU is embedded into the latest Snapdragon 820 processor.

Snap dragon chisp with adreno 530