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Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2023

Tutorial

• Kohi Game Engine Series - "Vulkan Game Engine series, where we make a game engine from the ground up using C and Vulkan".

Books

• Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan - Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques, by Marco Castorina and Gabriel Sassone.

Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2023

Libraries

• Frameworks, Engines, Higher Level Rendering
  • Acid (⭐1.5k) - A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine. [MIT]
  • AMD's Anvil (⭐577) - cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE (⭐577)]
  • Auto-Vk (⭐133) - Vulkan convenience and productivity layer for modern C++, atop Vulkan-Hpp, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT]
  • Auto-Vk-Toolkit (⭐229) - C++ framework around Auto-Vk (⭐133) for rapid prototyping, research, and teaching, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT for the framework's code]
  • bgfx (⭐13k) - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library. [BSD-2-clause (⭐13k)]
  • bsf (⭐1.7k) - Modern C++14 library for the development of real-time graphical applications. [MIT]
  • Cinder (⭐5k) and the story behind. [BSD]
  • DemoFramework (⭐198) - NXP GTEC C++11 cross-platform demo framework including lots of samples for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenVX, OpenCL, OpenVG and OpenCV. [BSD-3-clause (⭐198)]
  • Diligent Engine (⭐2.7k) - a modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports OpenGL/GLES, Direct3D11/12 and Vulkan. [Apache License 2.0]
  • Falcor (⭐1.9k) - Real-time rendering framework from NVIDIA, supporting mainly DX12, with experimental Vulkan support. [BSD 3-clause]
  • glfw (⭐10k) and the guide. [LICENSE (⭐10k)]
  • Intrinsic Engine (⭐1k) - Intrinsic is a Vulkan based cross-platform graphics and game engine. [Apache License 2.0]
  • Introductory Vulkan sample by GPUOpen (⭐110). [MIT]
  • liblava (⭐600) - A modern C++ and easy-to-use framework. [MIT]
  • Logi (⭐12) - Light-weight object oriented Vulkan abstraction framework. [BSD 2-clause]
  • Lugdunum (⭐237) - Modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14. [MIT]
  • openFrameworks (⭐65) - the most famouse C++ creative coding framework. [MIT]
  • PowerVR SDK (⭐602) - C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE (⭐602)]
  • Pumex (⭐286) - cross-platform Vulkan renderer implementing frame graph and simple scene graph. Able to render on many surfaces at once [MIT]
  • SDL - added cross-platform Vulkan graphics support in SDL_vulkan.h. [zlib]
  • small3d, Tiny Vulkan based C++ cross-platform game development framework [BSD 3-clause]
  • Spectrum (⭐15) - Work-in-progress framework and abstraction layer around Vulkan.
  • The-Forge (⭐3.5k) - DirectX 12, Vulkan, macOS Metal 2 rendering framework. [Apache License 2.0]
  • VkHLF (⭐328) - Vulkan High Level Framework. [LICENSE] (⭐328)
  • Vulkan Launchpad (⭐14) - Vulkan framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Especially well-suited for Vulkan beginners, used in university education, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT]
    • Vulkan Launchpad Starter (⭐7) - Starter template containing additional functionality and assets. [LICENSE] (⭐7)

Bindings

• Deno Vulkan (⭐7) - Vulkan API bindings for Deno. [Apache Licence 2.0]

Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2022

Bindings

• Raw Node.js Vulkan API (⭐10) - A new Vulkan bindings for Node.JS, similar with LWJGL-3 or NVK.

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Papers

• The Road to Vulkan: Teaching Modern Low-Level APIs in Introductory Graphics Courses by Johannes Unterguggenberger, Bernhard Kerbl, and Michael Wimmer, Eurographics 2022 - Education Papers
  • Direct link to the paper.
  • Pre-recorded presentation on YouTube.

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2022

Tutorial

• Vulkan Lecture Series - University lectures by Johannes Unterguggenberger from the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. Covers basic and advanced topics like: Vulkan essentials, the swap chain, resources and descriptors, commands and command buffers, pipelines and stages, real-time ray tracing, and synchronization.

Khronos

• Specification
  • Vulkan 1.0 Core API (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.0 Core API + Khronos-defined Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.0 Core API + all registered Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.1 Core API (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.1 Core API + Khronos-defined Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.1 Core API + all registered Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.2 Core API (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.2 Core API + Khronos-defined Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.2 Core API + all registered Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.3 Core API (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.3 Core API + Khronos-defined Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)
  • Vulkan 1.3 Core API + all registered Extensions (Chunked HTML) (PDF) (Single-file HTML)

Jun 13 - Jun 19, 2022

Libraries

• Low Level
  • Vulkan Memory Allocator (⭐1.9k) - Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library from AMD. [MIT]
    • [VulkanMemoryAllocator-Hpp] (https://github.com/malte-v/VulkanMemoryAllocator-Hpp (⭐36)) - C++ Bindings for VMA, like Vulkan-HPP
  • Fossilize (⭐33) - serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types. [MIT]
  • vk-bootstrap (⭐455) - C++ utility library to jump start Vulkan development by automating instance, physical device, device, and swapchain creation. [MIT]
  • Google's vulkan-cpp-library (⭐249) - Vulkan abstraction library using C++11 for memory, resource management, type and thread safety as well as system independency. [Apache]
  • FrameGraph (⭐375) - Vulkan abstraction layer that represent frame as a task graph. [BSD 2-clause]
  • V-EZ (⭐804) - light-weight middleware layer for the Vulkan API targeting Professional Workstation ISVs. [MIT]
  • Vookoo (⭐489) - Vookoo is a set of dependency-free utilities to assist in the construction and updating of Vulkan graphics data structres. [MIT]
  • vpp (⭐263) - Modern C++ Vulkan Abstraction focused on performance and a straightforward interface. [MIT]
  • VulkanSceneGraph - Vulkan/C++17 scene graph project, successor to OpenSceneGraph.
  • Vulkan-WSIWindow (⭐99) - Multi-platform library to create a Vulkan window, and handle input events. [Apache License 2.0]
  • Screen 13 (⭐148) - An easy-to-use Vulkan render graph for Rust. [MIT]

Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2022

Apps

• DDraceNetwork (⭐391) - Cooperative 2D platformer with optional Vulkan backend (⭐391). - zlib (⭐391) website

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2022

Samples

• Hello triangle, (⭐42) based on Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions. [MIT]

Nov 22 - Nov 28, 2021

Tools

• Open Capture and Analytics Tool (OCAT) (⭐235) - provides an FPS overlay and performance measurement for D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan. [MIT]

Aug 02 - Aug 08, 2021

Tutorial

• Vulkan Game Engine Tutorial - Tutorial series on making a vulkan game engine by Brendan Galea on YouTube.

Jun 21 - Jun 27, 2021

Bindings

• Vortice.Vulkan (⭐195) - .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET5 C# bindings [MIT]

Jun 14 - Jun 20, 2021

Bindings

• Silk.NET (⭐2.6k) - C# bindings for Vulkan and others. [MIT]

Tools

• VKtracer - universal and easy-to-use profiler for Vulkan.

Apr 26 - May 02, 2021

Libraries

• Other API Interop and Implementations
  • visor (⭐40) - Vulkan Ignoble Software Rasterizer. [MIT]
  • VulkanOnD3D12 - Vulkan API for D3D12. [Apache License 2.0]
  • rostkatze (⭐78) - C++ implementation of Vulkan sitting on D3D12 🐈[Apache License 2.0]
  • VK9 - Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan
  • VUDA (⭐461) - header-only lib that provides a CUDA Runtime API interface. [MIT]
  • clspv (⭐519) - prototype compiler for a subset of OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders. [Apache License 2.0]
  • MoltenVK (⭐3.9k) - run Vulkan on iOS and macOS. [Apache-2.0]
  • Zink - OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan, part of Mesa project. [MIT]
  • glo / OpenGL Overload (⭐275) - OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan.
  • gfx-portability (⭐364) - Vulkan Portability implementation on Metal and D3D12, based on gfx-rs (⭐5.2k).

Bindings

• gfx-rs (⭐5.2k) - A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust. [Apache License 2.0]

Mar 08 - Mar 14, 2021

Libraries

• 2D
  • imgui (⭐46k) - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]
  • Skia - Google's 2D graphics library has a Vulkan backend (⭐7.3k), demonstrated in a cross-platform sample application with its own window library (⭐7.3k). [BSD 3-clause] website
  • VKVG (⭐623) - Vulkan 2D graphics library, API follows the same pattern as Cairo graphics lib, but with new functions.

• Compute
  • libvc (⭐127) - Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE (⭐127)]
  • Vulkan Kompute (⭐1.1k) - Blazing fast and lightweight Vulkan Compute Framework optimized for advanced GPU processing usecases. [Apache License 2.0]
  • ncnn (⭐17k) - High-performance neural network inference framework with Vulkan based GPU inference. [BSD 3-clause]
  • vuh (⭐323) - Vulkan-based C++ GPGPU computing framework. [MIT]
  • VkFFT (⭐1k) - Efficient Vulkan FFT library [MPL-2.0 License]

• Raytracing
  • Quartz (⭐416) - Physically based Vulkan RTX path tracer with a declarative ES7-like scene description language. [LGPL-3.0]

• Scientific
  • datoviz (⭐428) - High-performance GPU interactive scientific data visualization with Vulkan. [MIT]
  • iMSTK - C++ toolkit for building surgical simulations with Vulkan and VTK backends. [Apache License 2.0]

• Shaders
  • glslang (⭐2.4k) - Library for compiling glsl to spirv [BSD 3-Clause]
  • SPIRV-Cross (⭐1.6k) - Library for reflection of spirv, simplify the creation of Vulkan pipeline layouts [ Apache-2.0 License]

Bindings

• VK² (⭐110), Kotlin Wrapper for Vulkan: code expressiveness and safety meet graphic power [Apache License 2.0]

Jan 04 - Jan 10, 2021

Document

• Khronos
  • Vulkan Guide (⭐1.5k)

Bindings

• vulkan-zig (⭐208) - Vulkan binding generator for Zig [MIT]

Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2020

Document

• LunarG
  • Vulkan SDK
  • Vulkan SDK Version Compatibility
  • Introducing the New Vulkan Configurator
  • Unified Validation Layer for Vulkan
  • Vulkan Synchronization Validation Quick Start Guide
  • Guide to Vulkan Synchronization Validation
  • Vulkan GPU-Assisted Validation
  • Automatic RelaxedPrecision Decoration and Conversion in Spirv-Opt
  • SPIR-V Legalization and Size Reduction with spirv-opt
  • All White Papers

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2020

Tools

• Qualcomm Adreno GPU Tools - samples, Adreno recommendation layer, best practice docs for Adreno GPU.

• Qualcomm Snapdragon Profiler - includes Vulkan traces and frame captures for Adreno GPU.

Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2020

Tutorial

• Vulkan Guide. [MIT]

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020

Community

• Discord

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2020

Apps

• Q2RTX (⭐1.1k) - NVIDIA’s implementation of RTX ray-tracing in Quake II. [LICENSE (⭐1.1k)]

Tools

• MangoHud (⭐4.5k) - Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load. [MIT]

Jun 15 - Jun 21, 2020

Bindings

• vulkan (⭐122) - Haskell bindings for Vulkan and Vulkan Memory Allocator [BSD-3-Clause]

Apr 06 - Apr 12, 2020

Tools

• glsl_trace (⭐29) - library for shader debugging and profiling for Vulkan and OpenGL. [MIT]

Mar 02 - Mar 08, 2020

Samples

• Sascha Willems's samples (⭐8.3k) and Deferred rendering of Sponza (⭐159) and his talk of Khronos_meetup_munich.

Feb 24 - Mar 01, 2020

Bindings

• PasVulkan (⭐165) - Vulkan bindings plus high-level wrapper library for Object Pascal [Zlib]

Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2020

Samples

• Khronos Vulkan samples (⭐3k) [LICENSE (⭐3k)]

Jan 13 - Jan 19, 2020

Tutorial

• Mike Bailey's Vulkan Page - Provides extensive Vulkan course slides. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]

Bindings

• ash (⭐1.3k) - Vulkan bindings for Rust. [MIT]

Dec 30 - Jan 05, 2019

Tools

• renderdoc (⭐7.2k) - by baldurk, a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. [MIT]
  • RDCtoVkCpp (⭐22) - converts RenderDoc Vulkan capture to compilable and executable C++ code. [MIT]

Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019

Bindings

• racket-vulkan (⭐41) - Racket bindings for Vulkan with detailed implementation notes. [MIT]

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

Hardware Support

• Arm
  • Mali GPU Best Practices

Document

• Arm
  • Vulkan Best Practice for Mobile Developers Tutorials (⭐543)
  • Vulkan's Key Features on Arm Architecture
  • Porting a Graphics Engine to the Vulkan API
  • Get Your Engine Ready for Vulkan on Mobile
  • Multi-Threading in Vulkan
  • Mali Vulkan SDK Tutorials and Slides

Samples

• Vulkan Best Practice for Mobile Developers Samples (⭐543)

Tools

• Arm Mobile Studio - includes the Arm Graphics Analyzer to trace graphics performance issues easily, and Arm Streamline performance analyzer, for a whole-system view of performance to determine bottlenecks quickly across both the CPU and GPU.

• Arm - PerfDoc (⭐112) - a validation layer against the Mali Application Developer Best Practices document. [MIT]

Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2019

Samples

• Gears VK (⭐12) - Gears VK is a heavily modified port of the famous "gears" demo to Vulkan/Android/Linux. [MIT]

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

Samples

• (Incomplete) Sascha Willems's samples port (⭐49) to Kotlin

Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019

Bindings

• nvk (⭐882) - JavaScript bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]

Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019

Samples

• Ray Tracing In One Weekend (Vulkan RTX) (⭐890) - Implementation of Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing In One Weekend book using Vulkan and NVIDIA's RTX extension.

Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2019

Hardware Support

• Imagination

Document

• Imagination
  • Efficient Rendering with Vulkan on PowerVR
  • Migrating to Vulkan with the New PowerVR Graphics Framework
  • Migrating from OpenGLES to Vulkan

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Apps

• vkQuake2 (⭐758) - id Software's Quake 2 v3.21 with Vulkan support (Windows and Linux). [GPL]

• q2vkpt (⭐948) - Real-time path tracer VKPT integrated into q2pro Quake 2 client. [gpl]

Dec 24 - Dec 30, 2018

Bindings

• vulkan-go (⭐676) - Go bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2018

Tutorial

• Vulkan Demos and Tutorials (⭐69). [MIT]

Samples

• Simple RTX Vulkan raytracing tutorials (⭐336). [MIT]

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018

Tutorial

• Moving to Vulkan (Khronos UK May16)

Samples

• LunarG's Samples (⭐1.3k)

• Vulkan Basic Graphics Samples (⭐21) - Collection of simple graphics samples that are written using Magma library.

Khronos

• Quick Reference Sheets
  • Vulkan 1.0 Quick Reference Sheets
  • Vulkan 1.1 Quick Reference Sheets

• Conformance Tests (CTS) (⭐438)

• Conferences and Presentations
  • GDC 2016 Presentations
  • 2016 UK Chapter: Moving to Vulkan
  • SIGGRAPH 2016 BOF - Vulkan
  • SIGGRPAH 2016 Best Practices Roundtable
  • 2016 Vulkan DevDay UK
  • 2016 Vulkan DevDay Seoul
  • 2017 Vulkan DevU Vancouver
  • 2017 Vulkan Loader Webinar
  • SIGGRAPH 2017 BOF - Vulkan
  • 2018 Vulkan Montreal Dev Day
  • 2018 Vulkanised!
  • SIGGRAPH 2018 BOF - Vulkan

Oct 01 - Oct 07, 2018

Apps

• Basemark - by Basemark.

Bindings

• libvulkan.lua (⭐46) - Lua bindings for Vulkan.

Aug 27 - Sep 02, 2018

Bindings

• flextGL (⭐197) - Minimal Vulkan header/loader generator and the blog post about it.

May 21 - May 27, 2018

Books

• Vulkan Programming Guide - by Graham Sellers and John Kessenich - Introduces powerful 3D development techniques for many fields.

Apr 30 - May 06, 2018

Document

• Samsung
  • Siggraph 2016 - Best Practices for Mobile
  • Vulkan Usage Recommencation (for mobile)

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

Tutorial

• How to Learn Vulkan - Meta post on how to learn Vulkan

• I Am Graphics And So Can You - Blog post style tutorial for those new to graphics learning Vulkan.

• Qualcomm Video Tutorial Series - Leans more towards Vulkan for mobile devices.

• Raw Vulkan - Overview on how to program a Vulkan application from the ground up.

• Tutorial by Overv and its github repository (⭐2.5k). [CC BY-SA 4.0]

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018

Samples

• Sascha Willems's Vulkan-glTF-PBR (⭐679) - physical based rendering with Vulkan using glTF 2.0 models. [MIT]

Jan 01 - Jan 07, 2018

Document

• Epic
  • Efficient use of Vulkan on UE4 Mobile

Bindings

• Vulkano (⭐3.7k) - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API. [MIT]

Dec 18 - Dec 24, 2017

Hardware Support

• AMD
  • Open-source Driver (⭐1.5k)

Oct 09 - Oct 15, 2017

Books

• Introduction to Computer Graphics and the Vulkan API by Kenwright - Introduce the reader to the exciting topic of computer graphics from a grounds-up practical perspective with the Vulkan API.

Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2017

Samples

• Laugh Engine (⭐383) - Vulkan implementation of real-time PBR renderer.

• TLVulkanRenderer (⭐91) - Simple Vulkan-based renderer for my master thesis on real-time transparency. [CC BY-SA 4.0]

• Vulkan-Hpp Samples (⭐306) - Fork of Sascha Willems excellent Vulkan examples that uses Vulkan-Hpp.

Related lists

• awesome (⭐243k) - Curated list of awesome lists.

• awesome-opengl (⭐1.8k) - Curated list of awesome OpenGL libraries, debuggers and resources.

• gamedev (⭐11k) - Awesome list about game development.

• graphics-resources (⭐1.7k) - List of graphic programming resources.

• awesome-d3d12 (⭐197) - Curated list of awesome D3D12 libraries, debuggers and resources.

Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2017

Tutorial

• jhenriques's tutorial

Tools

• gapid (⭐2.1k) - Graphics API Debugger, can trace and replay Android OpenGL ES and Vulkan applications. [Apache License 2.0]

Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2017

Samples

• GL_vs_VK (⭐76) - Comparison of OpenGL and Vulkan API in terms of performance. [MIT]

May 15 - May 21, 2017

Samples

• vulkantoy (⭐31) - Shadertoy image shader test app with Vulkan. [MIT]

May 01 - May 07, 2017

Community

• Freenode IRC

• Google Plus

• Khronos Forum

• Reddit

• Stack Overflow

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2017

Document

• AMD
  • Vulkan barriers explained
  • Vulkan Fast Paths
  • Let Your Game Shine – Optimizing DirectX 12 and Vulkan Performance with AMD CodeXL
  • D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned
  • Say Hello to a New Rendering API in Town!
  • Vulkan Renderpasses
  • Performance tweets series: Barriers, fences, synchronization
  • Using the Vulkan™ Validation Layers
  • Most common mistakes in Vulkan apps
  • Vulkan Device Memory

Tutorial

• vulkan-sxs (⭐16) - explain the Vulkan API step by step and vulkan-sync (⭐46) - rephrase Vulkan's requirements on execution dependencies in a more precise form. [MIT]

Tools

• LoaderAndValidationLayers (⭐414) - from KhronosGroup. [Apache Licence 2.0]

• VulkanTools (⭐575) - LunarG's tools including layers and configurator. [Apache Licence 2.0]

Books

• Learning Vulkan - by Parminder Singh - Get started with the Vulkan API and its programming techniques using the easy-to-follow examples.
  • Book's Examples (⭐181)

• Vulkan Cookbook- by Pawel Lapinski - Explores a wide range of graphics programming and GPU compute methods to make the best use of the Vulkan API.
  • Book's Examples (⭐656)

Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2017

Bindings

• vulkan (⭐396) - Ultimate Python bindings for Vulkan generated with CFFI. [Apache Licence 2.0]

Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2017

Bindings

• SharpVk (⭐140) - C# bindings for Vulkan with Linq-to-SPIR-V & NuGet package. [MIT]

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2017

Apps

• 3DMark - 3DMark API Overhead test.

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2017

Samples

• SDF Font Demo (⭐204) - Text rendering in Vulkan by estimating signed distance. [MIT]

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2017

Apps

• Linux port of SteamVR (⭐818) - SteamVR is built on top of the Vulkan API.

Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2017

Samples

• tinyrenderers (⭐440) - Single header implemenations of Vulkan and D3D12 renderers.

Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2016

Hardware Support

• NVIDIA
  • Driver for Desktop
  • Driver for Android
  • Driver for Linux for Tegra (L4T)

• Intel
  • Open-source Driver
  • Driver for Windows

Document

• NVIDIA
  • Vulkan Device-Generated Commands
  • Getting Vulkan Ready For VR
  • GPU-Driven Rendering
  • GDC 16 - High-performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan
  • GDC 16 - Vulkan and NVIDIA – The Essentials
  • Engaging the Voyage to Vulkan
  • Vulkan Shader Resource Binding
  • Vulkan Memory Management
  • OpenGL like Vulkan
  • Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan
  • Siggraph 15 talk - Vulkan on NVIDIA GPUs

• Intel
  • API without Secrets: Introduction to Vulkan (⭐1.2k) [LICENSE (⭐1.2k)]
    • Part 1: The Beginning
    • Part 2: Swap Chain
    • Part 3: First Triangle
    • Part 4: Vertex Attributes

Tutorial

• Siggraph
  • An overview of next-generation graphics APIs - covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.

Samples

• Google
  • Android port of LunarG samples (⭐446).
  • android tutorials (⭐745).

• nvpro-samples - NVIDIA DesignWorks Samples. [LICENSE (⭐148)]
  • gl_vk_chopper (⭐201) - Simple vulkan rendering example.
  • gl_vk_threaded_cadscene (⭐148) - OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using various techniques and the blog about it.
  • gl_vk_bk3dthreaded (⭐82) - Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.
  • gl_vk_supersampled (⭐59) - Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.

• Vulkan-Forward-Plus-Renderer (⭐610) - VFPR - a Vulkan Forward Plus Renderer. [MIT]

Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2016

Apps

• vkQuake (⭐1.5k) - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm. [GPL]

Samples

• C# Samples (⭐28) - Port of Overv's tutorials to SharpVk (⭐140) [MIT]

Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2016

Tutorial

• Lunarg's tutorial

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2016

Bindings

• Vulkan-hpp (⭐2.5k) Open-Source Vulkan C++ API originated from NVIDIA and the blog about it.

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2016

Tools

• Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2+.

Jul 18 - Jul 24, 2016

Hardware Support

• Khronos

Samples

• Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm (⭐1.5k).

Jul 04 - Jul 10, 2016

Samples

• NVIDIA GameWorks Samples - GameWorks cross-platform graphics API samples. [LICENSE]

May 30 - Jun 05, 2016

Apps

• Dota2 (⭐91) - by Valve.

May 23 - May 29, 2016

Samples

• Stardust from Intel (⭐113) - The Stardust sample application uses the Vulkan graphics API to efficiently render a cloud of animated particles. [LICENSE (⭐113)]

Bindings

• ErupteD (⭐46) - Another Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.

May 16 - May 22, 2016

Tutorial

• Vulkan in 30 minutes - by baldurk.

Apps

• Doom - by id Software.

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2016

Tools

• CodeXL (⭐976) - CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016

Bindings

• dvulkan (⭐16) - Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.

• VulkanSharp (⭐498) - C# bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]

• LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library 3 has Vulkan bindings. [BSD]

Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2016

Apps

• GFXBench 5 - by Kishonti.

Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016

Apps

• The Talos Principle - by Croteam.

• ProtoStar - by Epic, built with Unreal Engine 4 technology.

Feb 15 - Feb 21, 2016

Hardware Support

• gpuinfo - Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems

• Qualcomm

SDK

• For Windows & Linux

• For Android

Samples

• vkcube (⭐95) - 'vkcube' sample from krh, works under X, wayland and VT console with drm/kms.