Vulkan API ​

Vulkan Guide & Vulkan Tutorial in Rust are great intros.

Notes ​

• Vulkan has a lot going for it these days, but IMO the problem with its future is that (a) it's too verbose to use without an abstraction on top and (b) vendors won't stop pushing their native APIs as a competitive advantage (Microsoft still pushing DirectX - often getting features a year or two ahead of Vulkan, Apple is pushing Metal, GNM[X] from Sony, etc.). I think this means the future of graphics APIs is software abstractions around the truly native APIs (DirectX, Metal, etc.) - things like WebGPU, sokol_gfx, SDL's new GPU abstraction, and Sebastian Aaltonen.

Links ​

• Vulkan Guide - One stop shop for getting started with the Vulkan API.
• Vulkan Tutorial (Code)
• Vulkan Tutorial in Rust
• Rendy - Yet another Vulkan based rendering engine.
• Vulkan hardware database feature update (2020)
• Vulkano - Rust wrapper around the Vulkan graphics API.
• NVIDIA Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorial (Code)
• Ash - Vulkan bindings for Rust.
• NVK - Vulkan API for JavaScript/TypeScript. (Article)
• AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
• clspv - Prototype compiler for a subset of OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders.
• LegitEngine - Rendergraph-based graphical framework for Vulkan.
• DXVK - Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.
• Examples and demos for the new Vulkan API
• VUDA - Header-only library based on Vulkan that provides a CUDA Runtime API interface for writing GPU-accelerated applications.
• Rust implementation of the Vulkan Tutorial
• gfxreconstruct - Graphics API Capture and Replay Tools for Reconstructing Graphics Application Behavior.
• Vulkan Samples - Collection of Vulkan C++ sample applications. (Version 2)
• vpp - Modern C++ vulkan utility library.
• Yave - Yet Another Vulkan Engine.
• RPi-VK-Driver - Low level GPU driver for the Broadcom Videocore IV GPU that implements a subset of the Vulkan standard. (HN)
• Amber - Multi-API shader test framework.
• MoltenVK - Vulkan Portability implementation.
• Vulkan-Hpp - C++ Bindings for Vulkan.
• Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer (2020) (HN)
• vkbind - Single file Vulkan API loader.
• Vulkan Ecosystem Components - Provides Khronos official Vulkan Tools and Utilities for Windows, Linux, Android, and MacOS.
• Vulkan Kompute - Blazing fast, mobile-enabled, asynchronous and optimized for advanced GPU data processing usecases.
• renderer_prototype - Vulkan renderer built on top of atelier-assets. The objective of this repo is to build a scalable, flexible, data driven renderer.
• Vulkan Diagrams - Diagrams showing relationships between Vulkan objects and how they're used.
• TAA-STAR - C++/Vulkan Implementations of State of the Art Temporal Anti-Aliasing Techniques.
• vkvg - Vulkan 2D graphics library.
• Practical guide to graphics programming with Vulkan (Code)
• Vulkan Ecosystem Tools - Tools to aid in Vulkan development including useful layers, trace and replay, and tests.
• VulkanSceneGraph - Modern, cross platform, high performance scene graph library built upon Vulkan graphics/compute API. (Web)
• Vulkan-Headers - Vulkan Header files and API registry.
• vulkan-renderer - New 3D game engine using modern C++ and Vulkan API.
• Vulkan Performance Layers - Vulkan layers to measure pipeline performance and analyze frame times.
• Datoviz - GPU interactive scientific data visualization with Vulkan. (Docs)
• TTauri GUI library - Low Latency GUI on top of Vulkan.
• Learn Vulkan - Education platform for the graphics programming API known as Vulkan.
• Vulkan Validation Layers
• Zink: Running OpenGL on top of Vulkan - Interview with Mike Blumenkrantz (2021)
• Different techniques for order-independent transparency in Vulkan
• Vulkan Memory Allocator - Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library. (Web) (HN)
• Simplified Vulkan Synchronization - Single-header library with a simplified interface for Vulkan synchronization.
• Samples to illustrate Vulkan API on Android
• vk-bootstrap - Vulkan bootstraping library.
• vulkan-zig - Vulkan binding generator for Zig.
• Racket Vulkan - Vulkan API integration and utilities for Racket.
• Granite - Personal Vulkan renderer.
• Vulkan-ExtensionLayer - Layer providing Vulkan features when native support is unavailable.
• Vulkan API Specification and related tools
• Descriptorless Rendering in Vulkan (2021)
• Shaderc - Collection of tools, libraries, and tests for Vulkan shader compilation.
• shaderc-rs - Rust bindings for the shaderc library.
• kajiya - Experimental real-time global illumination renderer made with Rust and Vulkan. (Homegrown rendering with Rust ) (HN) (HN)
• Toy renderer written in C using Vulkan to perform real-time ray tracing research
• VIL - Vulkan in-app debugging layer.
• Physical based rendering with Vulkan using glTF 2.0 models
• lahar - Async-oriented Vulkan helpers.
• vk-mem - Rust bindings for AMD Vulkan Memory Allocator (VMA).
• vk-sync - Simplified Vulkan synchronization logic, written in rust.
• caldera - Vulkan and rust experiments, including a spectral path tracer using Vulkan ray tracing extensions.
• Rust & Vulkan test projects
• Vulkan Memory Model
• Vulkan Ecosystem Components
• Vulkan & OpenGL CAD Mesh Shader Sample
• How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022 (HN)
• Vulkan tutorial written in Rust using Ash
• Vulkan Haskell - Low-level low-overhead haskell bindings to vulkan API.
• Niagara - Vulkan renderer written from scratch on stream.
• volk - Meta loader for Vulkan API.
• lava - Modern and easy-to-use library for the Vulkan API.
• Sierra - Vulkan-lite GPU API.
• Zig vulkan renderer
• Vulkan Helpers - Vulkan c helper library.
• Walnut - Simple application framework for Vulkan and Dear ImGui apps.
• vulkanalia - Vulkan bindings for Rust.
• Primus-vk - Vulkan GPU-offloading layer.
• vkroots - Framework for writing Vulkan layers.
• Ray tracing glTF scene with Vulkan
• Vuh - Vulkan-based GPGPU computing framework.
• Fossilize - Serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types.
• SPIRV-Reflect - Lightweight library that provides a C/C++ reflection API for SPIR-V shader bytecode in Vulkan applications.
• Vookoo - Set of dependency-free utilities to assist in the construction and updating of Vulkan graphics data structures.
• Vulkan Tutorial in Zig
• vk-mem-alloc-rs - Lightweight wrapper around the Vulkan Memory Allocator.
• Mesh Shading for Vulkan (2022) (HN)
• Project Island - Experimental, hot-reloading Vulkan renderer/proto-engine.
• pasvulkan - Vulkan toolset for Pascal.
• VulkanAbstractionLayer - Render graph-based Vulkan API abstraction library.
• vuk - Rendergraph-based abstraction for Vulkan.
• Vulkan Render-Queues and how they Sync (2022)
• Vulkanizer - Advanced Vulkan rendering engine prototype.
• A look at Vulkan extensions in Venus (2022)
• Vulkan Video decoding (2022)
• Vulkan Tutorial in Rust (HN)
• RetroWarp - Vulkan compute shader implementation of a fictional retro GPU.
• Vulkan Template - Vulkan template with light abstraction as a base for personal projects.
• Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer
• Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers (2023) (HN)
• vkoverhead - Tool for evaluating CPU-based overhead of Vulkan drivers.
• vkvk - Vulkan library in Rust.
• Go-VK - Go binding around the Vulkan graphics and compute API. (Samples)
• Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux (2023)
• Daxa - GPU API built on Vulkan.
• Vulkan Video Decoding (2023) (HN)
• Boson - Vulkan abstraction layer that makes graphics easy and enjoyable. (Reddit)
• We've Got A Vulkan Memory Allocator At Home (2023)