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Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan

The Vulkan® Working Group has released the VK_KHR_pipeline_binary extension, enabling direct retrieval of binary data associated with individual pipelines, bypassing the VkPipelineCache mechanism, and enabling applications to explicitly manage pipeline caching.

August 27th at 8:52am

Today, we are excited to announce experimental support for the Khronos® Vulkan® API through the HgiVulkan backend, available in OpenUSD 24.08. This allows developers to start leveraging Vulkan in Storm or other Hgi-based renderers

July 25th at 8:56am

Developing with Vulkan on Apple iOS

In March 2024, Richard Wright from LunarG updated the State of Vulkan on Apple Devices white paper to reflect the latest availability of the Vulkan SDK on Apple platforms, and its ability to be used to develop applications that are fully compatible with the Apple App Store.

April 3rd at 9:02am

The Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® has developed a set of video format decode and encode extensions, collectively referred to as "Vulkan Video." Today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.277, the Working Group is proud to announce the new Decode AV1 video extension

February 1st at 8:56am

Streamlining Subpasses

Today we’re happy to announce the release of VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read, which adds support for local dependencies to dynamic rendering; enabling developers to fully move over to dynamic rendering as support is rolled out.

January 25th at 9:01am

The SPIR™ Working Group has developed two new SPIR-V extensions (and corresponding Vulkan® extensions) to provide shader authors with more guarantees about the execution model of shaders. These extensions formalize behavior many authors have previously taken for granted, so that they can now be relied upon across the ecosystem.

January 25th at 8:57am

The December 2022 release of Vulkan 1.3.238 saw the finalization of the extensions to decode H.264 and H.265, and today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.274, Khronos has finalized their counterpart: the extensions to enable encoding of H.264 and H.265 video streams.

December 19th at 8:59am

Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!

We have gathered all the key documents including the specifications, guides, tutorials and samples into a single website to allow developers to easily find the right documents and navigate quickly to the information they need.

October 11th at 2:15pm

Copying Images on the Host in Vulkan

The Vulkan Working Group has released the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension, allowing copies to and from images to be done on the host rather than the device.

August 23rd at 9:07am

On April 27, 2023 the Vulkan® Ray Tracing TSG released the VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch extension, which exposes the ability to fetch vertex positions from an acceleration structure hit when tracing rays.

May 15th at 10:03am

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