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Introducing Vulkan Ray Tracing Position Fetch Extension

On April 27, 2023 the Vulkan® Ray Tracing TSG released the VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch extension, which exposes the ability to fetch vertex positions from an acceleration structure hit when tracing rays.

May 15th at 10:03am

The NVIDIA Optical Flow Accelerator (NVOFA) is a dedicated hardware unit on newer NVIDIA GPUs for computing optical flow between a pair of images at high performance

April 17th at 7:47am

To help developers get started with leveraging Vulkan for parallel computing, we have contributed a new chapter on compute shaders to Vulkan-Tutorial.com.

February 7th at 12:04pm

The recently released VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1 and VK_EXT_swapchain_maintenance1 extensions resolve a number of longstanding issues with Vulkan's WSI extensions.

December 9th at 8:28am

VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer

We’ve just released an extension that I think will completely change how engines approach descriptors going forward.

November 21st at 8:26am

Mesh Shading for Vulkan

With the release of the VK_EXT_mesh_shader extension Vulkan gets an alternative geometry rasterization pipeline. This extension brings cross-vendor mesh shading to Vulkan, with a focus on improving functional compatibility with DirectX 12.

September 1st at 8:20am

Khronos has introduced a new extension named VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library that allows for shaders to be compiled much earlier than at full Pipeline State Object (PSO) creation time. By leveraging this extension, I was able to avoid many causes of frame hitches due to PSOs being late-created at draw time in the Source 2 Vulkan renderer.

March 29th at 9:34am

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

February 23rd at 4:02pm

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.

February 23rd at 4:02pm

Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression

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

February 23rd at 4:02pm

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