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… The Vulkan SC SDK includes the Vulkan SC loader, Vulkan SC emulation atop a Vulkan driver stack, Vulkan SC validation layers, device simulation layers, pipeline cache utilities, information tool, and related bits. …
Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension Written by Michael Larabel in Vulkan on 10 April 2026 at 08:23 AM EDT. 2 Comments Vulkan 1.4.349 is out today as a small update to the Vulkan API specification that incorporates various fixes that accumulated over the past week. …
… Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK KHR device address commands Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM S…
… Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK NV cooperative matrix decode vector Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvement…
RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension Written by Michael Larabel in Mesa on 9 April 2026 at 05:53 AM EDT. 6 Comments The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK EXT primitive restart index that was introduced last week. …
… Add A Comment Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration , FFV1 decode , and other features. …
… Vulkan protected memory has been around since Vulkan 1.1 while now RADV is enabling support for the "protectedMemory" option. …
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 30 March 2026 at 08:56 AM EDT. 13 Comments The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance. …
… At the time this was argued as one of the biggest additions to the Vulkan API since ray-tracing. Vulkan DGC lets applications record commands from shaders and execute them directly without having to go back to the CPU. …
… VK EXT descriptor heap was formally introduced back in January with Vulkan 1.4.340 . …