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title: 'Mesh Shading for Vulkan'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/mesh-shading-for-vulkan'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/blog/mesh-shading-for-vulkan.md'
date: '2022-09-01'
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#  Mesh Shading for Vulkan 

  September 1st at 8:20am

 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. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.khronos.org/blog/mesh-shading-for-vulkan)

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