Vulkan News Archives


624 Vulkan open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2015.

Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension
Vulkan 1.3.249 Introduces New Ray-Tracing Extension

Vulkan 1.3.249 is out today as the latest spec update for this industry-standard high performance graphics and compute API. Notable with Vulkan 1.3.249 is the introduction of VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch.

27 April 2023 - VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch - 1 Comment
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available
Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more.

14 March 2023 - Vulkanised 2023 - 6 Comments
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support
Vulkan SDK Updated With Vulkan Video Support

The Khronos Group with LunarG has now published the Vulkan SDK 1.3.239 release that is the first version of the software development kit with the Vulkan Video extensions now present.

30 January 2023 - Vulkan SDK With Vulkan Video - 22 Comments
Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension
Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension

While there tend to be new Vulkan API specification updates weekly or bi-weekly for most of the year, there was a one month hiatus due to Christmas and other end of year holidays with many of the corporate developers taking time off work. But that is now over and out today is Vulkan 1.3.239 as the first update in exactly one month.

19 January 2023 - Vulkan 1.3.239 - 6 Comments
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year
VP9 & AV1 Vulkan Video Extensions Expected Next Year

While this week saw the ratification of the Vulkan Video 1.0 extensions in stable form after being out as provisional extensions since early 2021, one of the sad aspects of it is still lacking support for the popular royalty-free VP9 and AV1 codecs. Fortunately, at least, it's been re-affirmed for VP9/AV1 support in 2023.

22 December 2022 - VP9 + AV1 Video Acceleration - 42 Comments
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238
Vulkan Video 1.0 Extensions Published As Part Of Vulkan 1.3.238

In early 2021 the Vulkan Video extensions were published in beta/provisional form as a new industry-standard video encode/decode API with the context of Vulkan. As a nice Christmas gift this week from The Khronos Group, the extensions have been finalized as Vulkan Video 1.0 and are now deemed ready for production use.

19 December 2022 - Vulkan Video 1.0 - 16 Comments
More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender
More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender

There has long been plans for supporting the Vulkan API with the Blender 3D modelling open-source software but there has been a lack of developers working on it. Fortunately, things are starting to (slowly) come together on Vulkan enablement for Blender.

7 November 2022 - Blender + Vulkan - 34 Comments
VirtIO-GPU Venus Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3

Mesa's Venus driver provides Vulkan support for VirtIO-GPU since it was merged last year as a creation by Google. As of yesterday, the Venus driver has moved on to exposing Vulkan 1.3 capabilities.

13 October 2022 - Venus Vulkan 1.3 - 14 Comments
VKD3D 1.5 Lands In Wine For Updated Direct3D 12 Over Vulkan

VKD3D 1.5 was recently tagged as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation used by Wine and originally an upstream to Valve's VKD3D-Proton. VKD3D 1.5 has been integrated into Wine Git ahead of next week's Wine 7.19 release.

27 September 2022 - VKD3D 1.5 - 12 Comments
RADV Driver Switches To 100% Dynamic Rendering
RADV Driver Switches To 100% Dynamic Rendering

Last month I wrote about the work being done by Jason Ekstrand for switching RADV completely over to dynamic rendering. That work has now panned out and as of a few minutes ago the transition to "100%" dynamic rendering for RADV has landed in Mesa 22.3.

9 September 2022 - RADV Dynamic Rendering - 22 Comments
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0
AMD's GPUOpen Releases Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0

AMD today released Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0 under their GPUOpen umbrella as this library to better manage memory allocation and resources for this graphics API and make it more similar to APIs like OpenGL and Direct3D.

25 March 2022 - Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.0 - Add A Comment

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