Vulkan Resources

Awesome, many thanks for the roundup!

One thing to mention, you need those specific older Nvidia drivers, their newer ones on their site do not support Vulkan (yet?); or at least they didn't for me.

I liked Vulkan in 30 Minutes as a short overview of Vulkan concepts.

I liked Vulkan in 30 Minutes as a short overview of Vulkan concepts.

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FYI the AMD drivers are partially broken, at least on my 290X. There's something wrong with their ICD implementation, there are posts on the internal AMD developer forum about the issue.

EDIT: Never mind. I went to go check on the status of this and it looks like AMD has issued a hotfix.

https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan

Is it just me or are most of the samples doing a ton of unnecessary waiting?

With the exception maybe doing something quick and dirty, special blocking loads, or maybe something fancy I can't think of at the moment, I kind of assume one wouldn't want to call vkDeviceWaitIdle or vkQueueWaitIdle very frequently. Right? But they seem littered everywhere.

https://www.khronos.org/news/events/vulkan-webinar

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Is it just me or are most of the samples doing a ton of unnecessary waiting?

With the exception maybe doing something quick and dirty, special blocking loads, or maybe something fancy I can't think of at the moment, I kind of assume one wouldn't want to call vkDeviceWaitIdle or vkQueueWaitIdle very frequently. Right? But they seem littered everywhere.

It's a hell of a lot easier than setting up the infrastructure for double (or more) buffering, where you need to ensure that you don't change/delete things that are being used for the previous frame. You still need to issue a wait every 2 frames for double buffering (3 for triple buffering, and so on), but in practice, it's just there as a safeguard for pathological scenarios and should typically be a no-op.

several GL/Vulkan samples from NVIDIA here https://github.com/nvpro-samples

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_vk_chopper

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_vk_threaded_cadscene

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_vk_bk3dthreaded

https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_vk_supersampled

still rely on NVIDIA extensions, but we are working on making them "core vulkan"

articles

https://developer.nvidia.com/engaging-voyage-vulkan

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-shader-resource-binding

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-memory-management

https://developer.nvidia.com/opengl-vulkan

and another set of samples

https://github.com/McNopper/Vulkan

My notes on vulkan at http://www.gamedevpensieve.com/graphics/graphic-api/vulkan. Not much yet as i started this weekend :).

I'm kinda excited for it, but with my limited openGL experience I'll be sticking with openGL for now. Definitely coming back to this in the future though, to learn more about those extra control goodies.

I'm kinda excited for it, but with my limited openGL experience I'll be sticking with openGL for now. Definitely coming back to this in the future though, to learn more about those extra control goodies.

There's very little that looks anything like GL. It looks a whole lot like DX12 however.

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This has not been mentioned:

https://github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan

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According to http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/99506 Vulkan support is now in the official driver release.

According to AMD, Vulkan support is integrated since Crimson 16.3 drivers http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD_Radeon_Software_Crimson_Edition_16.3.aspx

Qualcomm Adnreno Vulkan SDK is now available (free account needed): https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/adreno-gpu-sdk