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My toy renderer

Alongside my latest papers I released the underlying renderer as open source. It is a real-time deferred renderer with ray traced shadows based on Vulkan and written in C. I'm writing this blog post series in hopes that others may learn from it as well. And maybe some others want to toy with this code base.

July 8th at 5:37pm

Vulkan® provides low-level graphics APIs for creating games and other graphics applications. That’s something AMD can help you with!

July 8th at 5:37pm

Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!

We have gathered all the key documents including the specifications, guides, tutorials and samples into a single website to allow developers to easily find the right documents and navigate quickly to the information they need.

July 8th at 5:37pm

Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression

This guide provides information about how you can use ASTC effectively to optimize the performance of your apps

July 8th at 5:37pm

The Vulkan® Working Group has released the VK_KHR_pipeline_binary extension, enabling direct retrieval of binary data associated with individual pipelines, bypassing the VkPipelineCache mechanism, and enabling applications to explicitly manage pipeline caching.

August 27th at 8:52am

Today, we are excited to announce experimental support for the Khronos® Vulkan® API through the HgiVulkan backend, available in OpenUSD 24.08. This allows developers to start leveraging Vulkan in Storm or other Hgi-based renderers

July 25th at 8:56am

Developing with Vulkan on Apple iOS

In March 2024, Richard Wright from LunarG updated the State of Vulkan on Apple Devices white paper to reflect the latest availability of the Vulkan SDK on Apple platforms, and its ability to be used to develop applications that are fully compatible with the Apple App Store.

April 3rd at 9:02am

The Vulkan® Working Group at Khronos® has developed a set of video format decode and encode extensions, collectively referred to as "Vulkan Video." Today, with the release of Vulkan 1.3.277, the Working Group is proud to announce the new Decode AV1 video extension

February 1st at 8:56am

Streamlining Subpasses

Today we’re happy to announce the release of VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read, which adds support for local dependencies to dynamic rendering; enabling developers to fully move over to dynamic rendering as support is rolled out.

January 25th at 9:01am

The SPIR™ Working Group has developed two new SPIR-V extensions (and corresponding Vulkan® extensions) to provide shader authors with more guarantees about the execution model of shaders. These extensions formalize behavior many authors have previously taken for granted, so that they can now be relied upon across the ecosystem.

January 25th at 8:57am

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