@VulkanAPI

API for High-efficiency Graphics and Compute on GPUs

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vulkan.org/
Joined February 2015
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Did you know that Khronos is quite active on Discord? Whether you have a question about any Khronos APIs, our communities can help answer. Slang Discord: khr.io/slangdiscord Vulkan Discord: discord.gg/vulkan Khronos Discord : khr.io/khrdiscord #slang #vulkan
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@VulkanAPI #Vulkan Hardware Capability viewer 4.11 released. This version adds support for several new extensions, incl. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap. vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.…
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@phoronixJan 27
The @VulkanAPI VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland It's merged! Thanks Valve! Big improvement for Linux gaming ahead! phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Merge…

Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland

The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335

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@LunarGIncJan 26
📢 The 2026 LunarG Vulkan Ecosystem Survey is LIVE! Your feedback shapes Vulkan's future: SDK tools, validation layers, extensions, platform support & more. Quick, anonymous, and it helps every dev in the ecosystem. Take it now! 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/LRFD7V6 To see the results from last year's survey, check out our just-released 2025 Ecosystem Survey progress report: lunarg.com/2025-ecosystem-su… #Vulkan #GraphicsAPI @KhronosGroup @VulkanAPI
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@phoronixJan 23
The @VulkanAPI Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Roa…

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...

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@phoronixJan 13
The @FFmpeg Merges A Number Of @VulkanAPI Improvements To Start 2026 phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vul…

FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026

FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library

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My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @VulkanAPI #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at howtovulkan.com/ I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.
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The @Intel Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025 Very nice @OpenGL and @VulkanAPI performance gains out of @IntelGraphics Battlemage as well as Alchemist GPUs over the past year! phoronix.com/review/intel-b5…

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025

Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025.

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The @VulkanAPI Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-SER…

Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder)

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Blender 5.0 Released With Better @VulkanAPI Support, HDR On Wayland phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.…

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland

It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using...

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NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance The current state of the open-source @NVIDIA @VulkanAPI Linux driver. phoronix.com/news/NVK-Status…

NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance

In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within...

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The State Of The AMD RADV @VulkanAPI Driver In Late 2025 Great work by Valve! phoronix.com/news/AMD-RADV-V…

The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025

In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver

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youtu.be/GsnOWtptPM0 #Vulkan
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Vulkanised 2026 プログラムが公開されています！今回もたくさんの講演があるようです👀
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The Vulkanised 2026 program has been released! The 2026 program includes keynote presentations & technical talks spanning a wide range of topics that matter to everyone using Vulkan Explore the program and register today! vulkan.org/events/vulkanised… #vulkan #api #programming #gpu
Vulkanised 2026 program announced!

ALT Vulkanised 2026 program announced!

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The @VulkanAPI 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder and VK_EXT_custom_resolve are the new extensions in Vulkan 1.4.333. phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4…

Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions.

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Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source @VulkanAPI Driver Improvements Plus @OpenGL and @openclapi work isn't letting up yet either. Lots of great open-source work especially for @AMDRadeon and @IntelGraphics Linux drivers! phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3-…

Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems

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🚀Excited to announce a game-changing update in the latest Vulkan SDK: the Vulkan Drivers tab is now live in Vulkan Configurator! 👉 khr.io/1m5 • Seamlessly add extra drivers • Force apps to target a specific physical device • Sort & prioritize your device list
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The @AMDRadeon RADV Driver Adds Valve @VulkanAPI Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR "This is used by Steam Link VR (driver_vrlink) to avoid doing YUV conversion itself." phoronix.com/news/RADV-Valve…

RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR

Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension

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@LunarGInc will have THREE speakers at this event! @SpencerFricke will present "Instrumenting SPIR-V for GPU Validation" and Arcady Goldmints-Orlov will present "The glslang Compiler: The Present and Future."
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@LunarGInc11 Nov 2025
Proud to have @LunarGInc's @RandiRost3D invited to speak at this event!
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The @VulkanAPI 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML Meet VK_QCOM_data_graph_model phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4…

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification

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