What is the Vulkan video extension?
The Vulkan Video extensions provisional release in April 2020 brings video decoding and encoding acceleration to Vulkan, enabling early review and evaluation by the developer community to begin. This is a key building block in many use cases from game streaming to video playback on various devices.
What is the purpose of a Vulkan?
Vulkan is a cross-platform industry standard enabling developers to target a wide range of devices with the same graphics API. Vulkan is constantly evolving to bring new capabilities and improvements to the API.
What’s new in LunarG for Vulkan?
Support for the finalized Vulkan Video extension and applications using Vulkan-accelerated encode will be added in a future release. LunarG released new Linux, Windows, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.189, featuring many new extensions, devsim enhancements, and macOS updates.
What is the new Vulkan® GLSL and SPIR-V Extension?
This sample uses the new extension to streamline memory barriers used for compute and graphics work submissions. Khronos® has released the final versions of the set of Vulkan®, GLSL and SPIR-V extension specifications that seamlessly integrate ray tracing into the existing Vulkan framework.
What Vulkan drivers are available for Windows and Linux?
Vulkan 1.2, including support for the Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions, is available for Windows and Linux in our general release drivers here: Windows driver version 471.69 and Linux driver version 470.56.05 contain newly released Vulkan features and bug fixes for Vulkan developers.
What is Vulkan and how does it work with GPUs?
GPUs starting with the Turing family expose several Vulkan extensions giving developers access to advanced features like ray tracing, mesh shaders, variable rate shading and texture-space shading.
What games are going to be supported by Vulkan?
And if you had started writing code for Vulkan support sooner, it would really benefit to the publicity of these games everywhere since there are literally only two games that are announced to be supporting Vulkan afaik. They are The Talos Principle and UT 4. I think thats great news for those games as well.