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Vulkan® Guide

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The Vulkan Guide is designed to help developers get up and going with the world of Vulkan. It is aimed to be a light read that leads to many other useful links depending on what a developer is looking for. All information is intended to help better fill the gaps about the many nuances of Vulkan.

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The Vulkan Guide can be built as a single page using asciidoctor guide.adoc

2. Using Vulkan

2.1. Loader

2.2. Layers

2.5. WSI

2.10. Threading

2.11. Depth

  • VK_EXT_depth_range_unrestricted, VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable, VK_EXT_depth_clip_control

  • VK_EXT_image_robustness, VK_EXT_robustness2, VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness

  • VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state, VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2, VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state, VK_EXT_color_write_enable, VK_EXT_attachment_feedback_loop_dynamic_state

2.15. Subgroups

  • VK_EXT_subgroup_size_control, VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types, VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_ballot, VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_vote

  • VK_KHR_uniform_buffer_standard_layout, VK_KHR_relaxed_block_layout, VK_EXT_scalar_block_layout

2.17. Atomics

  • VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64, VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64, VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float, VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float2

3. When and Why to use Extensions

Note

These are supplemental references for the various Vulkan Extensions. Please consult the Vulkan Spec for further details on any extension

  • VK_EXT_4444_formats, VK_KHR_bind_memory2, VK_KHR_create_renderpass2, VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation, VK_KHR_driver_properties, VK_KHR_get_memory_requirements2, VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2, VK_EXT_host_query_reset, VK_KHR_maintenance1, VK_KHR_maintenance2, VK_KHR_maintenance3, VK_KHR_maintenance4, VK_KHR_maintenance5, VK_KHR_maintenance6, VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts, VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve, VK_EXT_separate_stencil_usage, VK_EXT_sampler_filter_minmax, VK_KHR_sampler_mirror_clamp_to_edge, VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats, VK_KHR_format_feature_flags2, VK_EXT_rgba10x6_formats, VK_KHR_copy_commands2

  • VK_KHR_device_group, VK_KHR_device_group_creation

  • VK_KHR_external_fence, VK_KHR_external_memory, VK_KHR_external_semaphore

  • VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline, VK_KHR_ray_query, VK_KHR_pipeline_library, VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations

  • VK_KHR_8bit_storage, VK_KHR_16bit_storage, VK_KHR_shader_clock, VK_EXT_shader_demote_to_helper_invocation, VK_KHR_shader_draw_parameters, VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8, VK_KHR_shader_float_controls, VK_KHR_shader_non_semantic_info, VK_EXT_shader_stencil_export, VK_KHR_shader_terminate_invocation, VK_EXT_shader_viewport_index_layer, VK_KHR_spirv_1_4, VK_KHR_storage_buffer_storage_class, VK_KHR_variable_pointers, VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model, VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout, VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory

  • VK_EXT_custom_border_color, VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle, VK_EXT_depth_clip_enable, VK_EXT_depth_clip_control, VK_EXT_provoking_vertex, VK_EXT_transform_feedback, VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod

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