What would it take to bring Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to Windows? RADV’s experimental Windows port is moving closer to real workloads, while highlighting a key challenge ahead: a stable interface to AMD’s proprietary kernel driver: col.la/portradv @vulkan.org #RADV #Mesa

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

RADV’s experimental Windows port explores bringing Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to real workloads while outlining the path toward stable support.

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@vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer 4.12 has been released. This version adds support for new extensions and also makes sure instance extensions that device extensions depend on are supported. Download available at vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

A focused course aimed at one very specific ray tracing performance problem: alpha-tested geometry. Foliage, chain-link fences, and hair force the GPU to run an any-hit shader on every BVH intersection, and that cost explodes exactly where scenes look best. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #vulkan

SIGGRAPH 2026 is well underway and we just held the Khronos Fast Forward to a great crowd! There's plenty left! Check-out our event's page for full list of Khronos activities: www.khronos.org/events/siggr... #Siggraph2026 #Khronos

This series is about "Collaborative Engineering" — using AI deliberately and rigorously, not just autocomplete. It sets up an AI-enhanced toolchain, teaches you to pick and specialize models for graphics work, and shows where multimodal vision models can be trusted. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat...

Vulkan's hardest topic, rebuilt around the modern standard. This series replaces legacy 1.0 barrier soup with `vk::DependencyInfo` and timeline semaphores, then uses that foundation to architect an engine-grade frame loop. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #vulkan #gpu #cpu #synchronization

New Tutorial - OpenXR and Vulkan 1.3 Spatial Computing Walking from the OpenXR/Vulkan 1.3 handshake all the way to multi-GPU CAVE installations and light-field rendering — everything needed to ship real spatial computing applications. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #Vulkan #OpenXR #spatial #3D

*From rigged mesh to a living, physically-simulated character* New Advanced glTF tutorial series: GPU compute skinning, ragdoll physics, procedural IK, and bindless facial morph targets — a real production pipeline, not just a demo scene. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #Vulkan #glTF #GameDev

Vulkanised 2027, the 9th Vulkan Developer Conference, heads to Kortrijk, Belgium on February 8–10, 2027, hosted by HOWEST University of Applied Sciences. Call for Submission is now open. Learn more: vulkan.org/events/vulka... #Vulkanised2027 #Vulkan #GraphicsProgramming #GPU #CallForSubmissions

If you're at SIGGRAPH 2026, don't miss the Real-Time Shading BOF — Tuesday, July 21, 1:00–3:00 PM PDT, Room 518 Special guest speaker, Ken Perlin, will be presenting, "The birth of Procedural Shaders." Don't miss it! […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

*Run trained neural networks on the GPU — your way, your pipeline.* A pragmatic, three-path series: integrate battle-tested libraries (TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, PyTorch Mobile, DirectML), compile models through an ML compiler (IREE, TVM, OpenXLA), or […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Vulkan is deprecating host-side ray tracing acceleration structure build commands in favor of a single, device-address-based path. This aligns #Vulkan Ray Tracing with the direction of DirectX Raytracing, modern engine architecture, and hardware trends. www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-... #RayTracing

"Unlock the GPU as a general-purpose engine, not just a rasterizer." This series takes you past `vkCmdDispatch` and into how compute actually executes on real hardware — occupancy, latency hiding, the Vulkan memory model, and subgroup operations that let […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

We are live at #AWE2026! Come see us in Booth #1041 and talk to us about the latest news for glTF, OpenXR, Vulkan and the OMBI Sneeze metaverse browser. We also have cool luggage tags you can pick up. Learn more about Khronos' activities at AWE: www.khronos.org/events/highl... #glTF #OpenXR #Vulkan

Optimizing Vulkan for tile-based GPUs? The Vulkan Guide's Tile Based Rendering (TBR) best practices page is a great resource. Full guide: docs.vulkan.org/guide/latest... #Vulkan #GPU #Programming #GameDev

A new tutorial from Etay Meiri is out: youtu.be/HmA0ytPjbK0 In this video he describes Specialization Constants in Vulkan.

Specialization Constants // Vulkan For Beginners #29

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LunarG's white paper, Configuring Vulkan Layers, has been updated for Vulkan SDK 1.4.335 and newer, bringing greater consistency, easier discovery of layer features, & smoother workflows for developers working with validation, profiles, extensions, and utility layers. www.lunarg.com/updated-conf...

UPDATED! Configuring Vulkan Layers White Paper - LunarG

Christophe Riccio of LunarG has updated Configuring Vulkan Layers white paper. Download this valuable reference as a white paper now!

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Wildly neat work from @khronos.org doing a variety of video codecs in compute shaders. Big variety of interesting formats here, many "mezzanine" compression, high quality semi-realtime for av production. Example: Samsung APV. www.khronos.org/blog/video-e...

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, wi...

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Learn how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute shaders to accelerate professional codec workflows — FFv1, ProRes, ProRes RAW, APV and more — on any Vulkan-capable GPU, with no fixed-function hardware required. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/video-e... #Vulkan #FFmpeg #GPUCompute #ProRes #FFv1 #APV #VC2

Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg

In this blog we explore how FFmpeg uses Vulkan Compute to seamlessly accelerate encoding and decoding of even professional-grade video on consumer GPUs — unlocking GPU compute parallelism at scale, wi...

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Just released a substantial update to the @vulkan.org #Vulkan hardware database at vulkan.gpuinfo.org.with this update, performance should improve a lot and with that also site availability. You can read up on the changes at www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/03...

Improving performance of the Vulkan Hardware Database

Tackling performance issues Looking at server statistics, the Vulkan database alone is serving up to 3 million requests per month. A number I would’ve never imagined when I first created this back in ...

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SPIR-V 1.6 Revision 7 has been released. See change log: registry.khronos.org/SPIR-V/specs... #SPIRV #vulkan #GPUProgramming #GPU #GraphicsProgramming

The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul... #vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine

ICYMI: Weston 15.0 is out now. It brings a new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a wide range of improvements across color handling, media playback, and display performance. col.la/weston15 #Weston #Wayland #OpenSource @vulkan.org

Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack

Weston 15.0 has arrived, bringing a brand new Lua-based shell for fully customizable window management, an experimental Vulkan renderer, and a host of improvements.

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If you wanna know if #Vulkan @vulkan.org is the right graphics api for hobby developers (tl;dr: yes), you might find an answer in my #Vulkanised 2026 talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eshk...

Vulkanised 2026: Vulkan Now and Then (for Hobbyists)

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Another step towards vibrant visuals https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/another-step-towards-vibrant-visuals-for-java-edition

@vulkan.org Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More - Phoronix www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-...

Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More

In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap 'VK_EXT_descriptor_heap' extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has also pub...

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We are excited to share that the session videos and presentation slides from Vulkanised 2026 are now available online! All files linked on the event page: vulkan.org/events/vulka... Huge thanks to all the speakers, organizers, sponsors, and contributors! #Vulkan #API #Graphics #Developer #GPU

Looking for a basic @vulkan.org #Vulkan descriptor heap example? I've got you covered: github.com/SaschaWillem...

Happy birthday Vulkan!

@vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability viewer 4.11 released. This version adds support for several new extensions, incl. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap. vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php