Nkhawa ya Khronos, yomwe ili ndi udindo wopanga mafotokozedwe a banja la OpenGL, Vulkan ndi OpenCL, adalengeza pomaliza kukonza mafotokozedwe a OpenCL 3.0 omwe amatanthauzira ma API ndi zowonjezera za chilankhulo cha C pokonzekera makompyuta ofananirako pogwiritsa ntchito ma CPU amitundu yambiri, ma GPU, ma FPGA, ma DSP ndi tchipisi zina zapadera, kuchokera kwa omwe amagwiritsidwa ntchito m'makompyuta apamwamba ndi maseva amtambo. ku tchipisi tomwe tingapezeke pazida zam'manja ndi ukadaulo wophatikizidwa. Muyezo wa OpenCL ndiwotsegukiratu ndipo safuna chindapusa. Makampani monga IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Apple, ARM, Electronic Arts, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments ndi Toshiba adagwira nawo ntchito pa muyezo.
Kugwirizana ndi zomwe zidatulutsidwa m'mbuyomu kumapangitsa kukhala kosavuta kusamutsa mapulogalamu kupita ku OpenCL 3.0. Mapulogalamu a OpenCL 1.2 azitha kuyendetsa pazida zomwe zimathandizira OpenCL 3.0 popanda kusinthidwa. Mapulogalamu a OpenCL 2.x sangafunikenso kusintha ma code, bola ngati malo a OpenCL 3.0 akupereka zofunikira (kuonetsetsa kuti mtsogolomu zidzatheka, OpenCL 2.x mapulogalamu akulimbikitsidwa kuti awonjezere mafunso oyesa kuti ayese kuthandizira kwa OpenCL 2.x kugwiritsidwa ntchito). Madivelopa oyendetsa madalaivala okhala ndi OpenCL atha kukweza malonda awo kukhala OpenCL 3.0, ndikungowonjezera kuyankha kwamafunso pama foni ena a API, ndikuwonjezera magwiridwe antchito pakapita nthawi.
Mafotokozedwe a OpenCL 3.0 amagwirizana ndi chilengedwe, zowonjezera, ndi mafotokozedwe a SPIR-V generic intermediate representation, yomwe imagwiritsidwanso ntchito ndi Vulkan API. Thandizo pamatchulidwe a SPIR-V 1.3 akuphatikizidwa pachimake OpenCL 3.0 ngati chinthu chosankha. Pogwiritsa ntchito choyimira chapakati SPIR-V kuthandizira magwiridwe antchito ndi magulu ang'onoang'ono awonjezedwa pamakompyuta apakompyuta.
Thandizo lowonjezera pakuwonjezera kuchita ma asynchronous DMA opareshoni (Asynchronous DMA), yothandizidwa ndi tchipisi ta DSP zokhala ndi mwayi wokumbukira mwachindunji. Asynchronous DMA imapangitsa kuti zitheke kugwiritsa ntchito zochitika za DMA kusamutsa deta pakati pa kukumbukira kwapadziko lonse ndi komweko molingana ndi kuwerengera kapena ntchito zina zosamutsa deta.
Mafotokozedwe a C Parallel Programming Extensions asinthidwa kukhala Mtundu 3.0, ndi chitukuko cha zilankhulo za OpenCL za C++ zinathetsedwa mokomera polojekiti ya "C++ ya OpenCL". C++ ya OpenCL ndi compiler yochokera ku Clang/LLVM ndi kuwulutsa C++ ndi OpenCL C kernels kukhala mawonekedwe apakati a SPIR-V kapena makina otsika kwambiri. Kudzera pawailesi yakanema, SPIR-V imakonzanso kusonkhanitsidwa kwa mapulogalamu a C++ pogwiritsa ntchito laibulale ya template ya SYCL, yomwe imathandizira kupanga mapulogalamu ofanana.
Wophatikiza waperekedwa kuti aulutse OpenCL kudzera pa Vulkan API clspv, yomwe imasintha ma kernels a OpenCL kukhala choyimira cha Vulkan SPIR-V, ndi wosanjikiza clvk kuti OpenCL API igwire ntchito pamwamba pa Vulkan.