Hacker News Reader

True! The fact that you'd be able to use pretty much any GPU - even integrated/AMD/NVidia would really help.

Speaking of which, doesn't the new Vulkan API include compute too?

Yes, Vulkan includes compute capabilities. For example, here is a relevant section about compute pipelines in the Vulkan specification: https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.0/html/vkspe...