Awesome Vulkan

A curated list of awesome Vulkan libraries, debuggers and resources. Inspired by awesome-opengl and other awesome-... stuff.

• Hardware Support
• SDK
• IHV Document
• Tutorial
• Apps
• Samples
• Libraries
• Bindings
• Tools
• Books
• Community

Hardware Support

• gpuinfo - Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems
• Khronos
• NVIDIA
  • Driver for Desktop
  • Driver for Android
  • Driver for Linux for Tegra (L4T)
• AMD
• Imagination
• Intel
  • Open-source Driver
  • Driver for Windows
• Qualcomm
• ARM

SDK

• For Windows & Linux
• For Android

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
• 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
• ARM
  • Porting a Graphics Engine to the Vulkan API
  • Multi-Threading in Vulkan
  • Vulkan's Key Features on ARM Architecture
  • Get Your Engine Ready for Vulkan on Mobile
  • Mali Vulkan Tutorials and Slides Vulkan tutorials from the Mali Vulkan SDK
• Intel
  • API without Secrets: Introduction to Vulkan [LICENSE]
    • Part 1: The Beginning
    • Part 2: Swap Chain
    • Part 3: First Triangle
    • Part 4: Vertex Attributes
• Imagination
  • Efficient Rendering with Vulkan on PowerVR
  • Migrating to Vulkan with the New PowerVR Graphics Framework
• Samgsung
  • Siggraph 2016 - Best Practices for Mobile
• Epic
  • Efficient use of Vulkan on UE4 Mobile

Tutorial

• jhenriques's tutorial
• Khronos
  • Vulkan 1.0 Quick Reference
  • Vulkan 1.0 Specification
  • GDC 2016 Presentations
  • Moving to Vulkan Khronos UK May16
  • SIGGRPAH 2016 3D BOF
• Lunarg's tutorial
• Siggraph
  • An overview of next-generation graphics APIs - covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.
• vulkan-sxs - explain the Vulkan API step by step and vulkan-sync - rephrase Vulkan's requirements on execution dependencies in a more precise form. [MIT]
• Vulkan in 30 minutes - by baldurk.
• Tutorial by Overv and its github repository. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
• Vulkan Demos and Tutorials [MIT].
• Qualcomm Video Tutorial Series - Leans more towards Vulkan for mobile devices.
• Raw Vulkan - An overview on how to program a Vulkan application from the ground up.

Apps

• The Talos Principle - by Croteam.
• Dota2 - by Valve.
• Basemark - by Basemark.
• GFXBench 5 - by Kishonti.
• ProtoStar - by Epic, built with Unreal Engine 4 technology.
• Doom - by id Software.
• vkQuake - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm. [GPL]
• Linux port of SteamVR - SteamVR is built on top of the Vulkan API.
• 3DMark - 3DMark API Overhead test.

Samples

• Sascha Willems's samples and Deferred rendering of Sponza and his talk of Khronos_meetup_munich.
• McNopper's examples
• KhronosGroup
  • Samples
  • Conformance Tests (CTS)
• Google
  • Android port of LunarG samples.
  • android tutorials.
• nvpro-samples - NVIDIA DesignWorks Samples. [LICENSE]
  • gl_vk_chopper - Simple vulkan rendering example.
  • gl_vk_threaded_cadscene - OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using veraious techniques and the blog about it.
  • gl_vk_bk3dthreaded - Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.
  • gl_vk_supersampled - Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.
• NVIDIA GameWorks Samples - GameWorks cross-platform graphics API samples. [LICENSE]
• LunarG's samples
• vkcube - 'vkcube' sample from krh, works under X, wayland and VT console with drm/kms.
• Stardust from Intel - The Stardust sample application uses the Vulkan graphics API to efficiently render a cloud of animated particles. [LICENSE]
• [Introductory Vulkan sample from AMD](https://github.com/GPUOpen- riesAndSDKs/HelloVulkan). [MIT]
• Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm.
• C# Samples - Port of Overv's tutorials to SharpVk [MIT]
• Vulkan-Forward-Plus-Renderer - VFPR - a Vulkan Forward Plus Renderer. [MIT]
• Laugh Engine - A Vulkan implementation of real-time PBR renderer.
• tinyrenderers - Single header implemenations of Vulkan and D3D12 renderers.
• TLVulkanRenderer - A simple Vulkan-based renderer for my master thesis on real-time transparency. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
• Vulkan-Hpp Samples - A fork of Sascha Willems excellent Vulkan examples that uses Vulkan-Hpp.
• SDF Font Demo - Text rendering in Vulkan by estimating signed distance. [MIT]
• vulkantoy - Shadertoy image shader test app with Vulkan. [MIT]

Libraries

• Cinder and the story behind. [BSD]
• DemoFramework - NXP GTEC C++11 cross-platform demo framework including lots of samples for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenVX, OpenCL, OpenVG and OpenCV. [BSD-3-clause]
• openFrameworks - the most famouse C++ creative coding framework. [MIT]
• bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library, bgfx backend is WIP. [LICENSE]
• PowerVR SDK - C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE]
• glfw and the guide. [LICENSE]
• MetalVK - run Vulkan on iOS and OS X. [Non-free]
• imgui - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]
• libvc - Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE]
• AMD's Anvil - cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE]
• Google's vulkan-cpp-library - Vulkan abstraction library using C++11 for memory, resource management, type and thread safety as well as system independency. [Apache]
• Vookoo - Vookoo is a set of dependency-free utilities to assist in the construction and updating of Vulkan graphics data structres. [MIT]
• vpp - Modern C++ Vulkan Abstraction focused on performance and a straightforward interface. [MIT]
• Intrinsic Engine - Intrinsic is a Vulkan based cross-platform graphics and game engine. [Apache License 2.0]
• glo / OpenGL Overload - OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan.
• Spectrum - A work-in-progress framework and abstraction layer around Vulkan.
• SDL_vulkan - A library for creating Vulkan surfaces for SDL2 windows. [MIT]
• VkHLF - Vulkan High Level Framework. [LICENSE
• VulkanOnD3D12 - Vulkan API for D3D12. [Apache License 2.0]
• visor - Vulkan Ignoble Software Rasterizer. [MIT]
• Lugdunum - A modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14. [MIT]
• Vulkan-WSIWindow - A multi-platform library to create a Vulkan window, and handle input events. [Apache License 2.0]

Bindings

• libvulkan.lua - Lua bindings for Vulkan.
• dvulkan - Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
• ErupteD - Another Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
• Haskell bindings for Vulkan - [LICENSE]
• Vulkan-hpp Open-Source Vulkan C++ API originated from NVIDIA and the blog about it.
• VulkanSharp - C# bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]
• Vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API. [MIT]
• LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library 3 has Vulkan bindings. [BSD]
• SharpVk - C# bindings for Vulkan with Linq-to-SPIR-V & NuGet package. [MIT]
• vulkan - Ultimate Python bindings for Vulkan generated with CFFI. [Apache Licence 2.0]

Tools

• Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2+.
• LoaderAndValidationLayers - from KhronosGroup. [Apache Licence 2.0]
• renderdoc - by baldurk, a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. [MIT]
• VulkanTools - LunarG's tools including layers, vktrace and vkreplay. [Apache Licence 2.0]
• CodeXL - CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]
• Qualcomm GPU Tools.
• Mali Graphics Debugger.
• Open Capture and Analytics Tool (OCAT) - rovides an FPS overlay and performance measurement for D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan. [MIT]

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

Community

• Freenode IRC
• Google Plus
• Khronos Forum
• Reddit
• Stack Overflow

Related lists

• awesome - A curated list of awesome lists.
• awesome-opengl - A curated list of awesome OpenGL libraries, debuggers and resources.
• gamedev - A awesome list about game development.
• graphics-resources - A list of graphic programming resources.
• awesome-d3d12 - A curated list of awesome D3D12 libraries, debuggers and resources.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.