The card in question: Thames [Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M] (Radeon HD 7570M) I am starting to face mounting issues as a lot of modern software have started to abandon OpenGL in favor of Vulkan, and if its possible, I just want to try for the learning opportunity
The rationale for doing this must only be for fun. You’re talking about a project that will take man years, and the price of a new vulkan capable graphics card is $300-400.
You don’t need to spend that much to get a vulkan-capable GPU.
Do you think I would have any motivation to embark on such a ( admittedly Useless)project if i had that kind of money lying around to spend on a GPU.
The time it will take you to learn the required skills to build a GPU driver and then the implementation will likely be several years—maybe half a decade.
Fair enough, I just want to keep my Hardware running, do i have any options(besides getting new hardware).
Looking at the Product Conformance pages, it looks like you need a GCN 1.0 device for Vulkan 1.0 support (current is 1.4).
Thames was a Terrascale 2 architecture (i.e. the one before GCN1.0) and as such can’t support Vulkan or DX12.
You can get a modern card capable of vulkan for like $30 off ebay.
my entire laptop is cheaper than that and mostly supports vulkan