---
title: 'Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/bringing-explicit-pipeline-caching-control-to-vulkan'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/bringing-explicit-pipeline-caching-control-to-vulkan.md'
date: '2024-08-27'
---

#  Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan 

  August 27th at 8:52am

 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. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/bringing-explicit-pipeline-caching-control-to-vulkan)

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