--- title: Blog url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog' markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog.md' date: '2026-07-08' --- # Blog [My toy renderer](https://momentsingraphics.de/ToyRendererOverview.html) 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 9:33pm [ Read More ](https://momentsingraphics.de/ToyRendererOverview.html) [AMD GPUOpen Vulkan® Tutorials and Samples](https://gpuopen.com/learn/lets-learn-vulkan/) Vulkan® provides low-level graphics APIs for creating games and other graphics applications. That’s something AMD can help you with! July 8th at 9:33pm [ Read More ](https://gpuopen.com/learn/lets-learn-vulkan/) [Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!](https://www.khronos.org/blog/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 9:33pm [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-documentation-just-got-easier) [Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression](https://developer.arm.com/solutions/graphics-and-gaming/developer-guides/learn-the-basics/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 9:33pm [ Read More ](https://developer.arm.com/solutions/graphics-and-gaming/developer-guides/learn-the-basics/adaptive-scalable-texture-compression) [Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan](https://www.khronos.org/blog/bringing-explicit-pipeline-caching-control-to-vulkan) 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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/bringing-explicit-pipeline-caching-control-to-vulkan) [Vulkan Support Added to OpenUSD and Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer](https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer) 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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer) [Developing with Vulkan on Apple iOS](https://www.khronos.org/blog/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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/developing-with-vulkan-on-apple-ios) [Khronos Releases AV1 Decode in Vulkan Video with SDK Support for H.264/H.265 Encode](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode) 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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-vulkan-video-av1-decode-extension-vulkan-sdk-now-supports-h.264-h.265-encode) [Streamlining Subpasses](https://www.khronos.org/blog/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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/streamlining-subpasses) [Khronos Releases Maximal Reconvergence and Quad Control Extensions for Vulkan and SPIR-V](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v) 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 [ Read More ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-releases-maximal-reconvergence-and-quad-control-extensions-for-vulkan-and-spir-v) [ Load More... ](https://vulkan.org/blog/tmpl:infinite-post-item/page:2) --- ## Navigation - Previous: [News](https://vulkan.org/news.md) - Next: [Events](https://vulkan.org/events.md) - Children: - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 1](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-1.md) - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 2](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-2.md) - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 3](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-3.md) - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 4](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-4.md) - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 5](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-5.md) - [A tour of Granite’s Vulkan backend – Part 6](https://vulkan.org/blog/a-tour-of-granite%27s-vulkan-backend-part-6.md) - 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Why Vulkan is the future of graphics](https://vulkan.org/blog/stuck-on-opengl-es-time-to-move-on-why-vulkan-is-the-future-of-graphics.md) - [Vulkan SDK Offers Developers a Smooth Transition Path to Synchronization2](https://vulkan.org/blog/synchronization2.md) - [Understanding Vulkan Synchronization](https://vulkan.org/blog/understanding-vulkan-synchronization.md) - [Using asynchronous compute on Arm Mali GPUs](https://vulkan.org/blog/using-asynchronous-compute-on-arm-mali-gpus.md) - [VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer](https://vulkan.org/blog/vk_ext_descriptor_buffer.md) - [VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod Vulkan extension released](https://vulkan.org/blog/vk_ext_image_view_min_lod-vulkan-extension-released.md) - [Vulkan 1.3 and Roadmap 2022](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-1-3-and-roadmap-2022.md) - [Vulkan Bits and Pieces: Synchronization in a Frame](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-bits-and-pieces-synchronization-in-a-frame.md) - [Vulkan Documentation Just Got Easier!](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-documentation-just-got-easier.md) - [Vulkan for Cloud-based Transient Compute](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-for-cloud-based-transient-compute.md) - [AMD GPUOpen Vulkan® Tutorials and Samples](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-r-tutorials-and-samples.md) - [Vulkan Ray Tracing Best Practices for Hybrid Rendering](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-ray-tracing-best-practices-for-hybrid-rendering.md) - [Vulkan Ray Tracing Final Specification Release](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-ray-tracing-final-specification-release.md) - [Vulkan samples: Bandwidth and throughput optimizations for mobile](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-samples-bandwidth-and-throughput-optimizations-for-mobile.md) - [Vulkan Support Added to OpenUSD and Pixar’s Hydra Storm Renderer](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-support-added-to-openusd-and-pixars-hydra-storm-renderer.md) - [Vulkan Timeline Semaphores](https://vulkan.org/blog/vulkan-timeline-semaphores.md) - [Yet another blog explaining Vulkan synchronization](https://vulkan.org/blog/yet-another-blog-explaining-vulkan-synchronization.md)