Awesome Vulkan – Massive Collection of Resources

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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
Khronos
Community

Hardware Support

gpuinfo – Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems
Khronos
NVIDIA
AMD
- Open-source Driver
Imagination
Intel
- Open-source Driver
- Driver for Windows
Qualcomm
Arm
- Mali GPU Best Practices

SDK

Document

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.
Moving to Vulkan (Khronos UK May16)
jhenriques’s tutorial
Lunarg’s tutorial
Mike Bailey’s Vulkan Page – Provides extensive Vulkan course slides. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0]
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.
Siggraph
- An overview of next-generation graphics APIs – covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.
Tutorial by Overv and its github repository. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
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.
Vulkan Demos and Tutorials. [MIT]
Vulkan Guide. [MIT]

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]
vkQuake2 – id Software’s Quake 2 v3.21 with Vulkan support (Windows and Linux). [GPL]
q2vkpt – Real-time path tracer VKPT integrated into q2pro Quake 2 client. [gpl]
Linux port of SteamVR – SteamVR is built on top of the Vulkan API.
3DMark – 3DMark API Overhead test.
Q2RTX – NVIDIA’s implementation of RTX ray-tracing in Quake II. [LICENSE]

Samples

Khronos Vulkan samples [LICENSE]
Sascha Willems’s samples and Deferred rendering of Sponza and his talk of Khronos_meetup_munich.
(Incomplete) Sascha Willems’s samples port to Kotlin
Sascha Willems’s Vulkan-glTF-PBR – physical based rendering with Vulkan using glTF 2.0 models. [MIT]
Vulkan Best Practice for Mobile Developers Samples
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 various 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]
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 – Vulkan implementation of real-time PBR renderer.
tinyrenderers – Single header implemenations of Vulkan and D3D12 renderers.
TLVulkanRenderer – Simple Vulkan-based renderer for my master thesis on real-time transparency. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
Vulkan-Hpp Samples – 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]
GL_vs_VK – Comparison of OpenGL and Vulkan API in terms of performance. [MIT]
Vulkan Basic Graphics Samples – Collection of simple graphics samples that are written using Magma library.
Simple RTX Vulkan raytracing tutorials. [MIT]
RadX – Dedicated example of radix sorting on GPU (on NVIDIA RTX in particular).
Ray Tracing In One Weekend (Vulkan RTX) – Implementation of Peter Shirley’s Ray Tracing In One Weekend book using Vulkan and NVIDIA’s RTX extension.
Gears VK – Gears VK is a heavily modified port of the famous “gears” demo to Vulkan/Android/Linux. [MIT]
Hello Triangle, based on VK_KHR_ray_tracing extension. [MIT]

Libraries

Acid – A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine. [MIT]
bgfx – Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, “Bring Your Own Engine/Framework” style rendering library. [BSD-2-clause]
bsf – Modern C++14 library for the development of real-time graphical applications. [MIT]
Cinder and the story behind. [BSD]
Diligent Engine – a modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports OpenGL/GLES, Direct3D11/12 and Vulkan. [Apache License 2.0]
SDL – added cross-platform Vulkan graphics support in SDL_vulkan.h. [zlib]
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]
PowerVR SDK – C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE]
glfw and the guide. [LICENSE]
MoltenVK – run Vulkan on iOS and macOS. [Apache-2.0]
imgui – Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]
vuh – Vulkan-based C++ GPGPU computing framework. [MIT]
vk-bootstrap – C++ utility library to jump start Vulkan development by automating instance, physical device, device, and swapchain creation. [MIT]
liblava – A modern C++ and easy-to-use framework. [MIT]
libvc – Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE]
AMD’s Anvil – cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE]
- Introductory Vulkan sample. [MIT]
Vulkan Memory Allocator – Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library from AMD. [MIT]
V-EZ – light-weight middleware layer for the Vulkan API targeting Professional Workstation ISVs. [MIT]
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.
Skia – Google’s 2D graphics library has a Vulkan backend, demonstrated in a cross-platform sample application with its own window library. [BSD 3-clause] website
Spectrum – Work-in-progress framework and abstraction layer around Vulkan.
VkHLF – Vulkan High Level Framework. [LICENSE]
VulkanOnD3D12 – Vulkan API for D3D12. [Apache License 2.0]
visor – Vulkan Ignoble Software Rasterizer. [MIT]
Lugdunum – Modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14. [MIT]
Vulkan-WSIWindow – Multi-platform library to create a Vulkan window, and handle input events. [Apache License 2.0]
Falcor – Real-time rendering framework from NVIDIA, supporting DX12 and Vulkan. [BSD 3-clause]
The-Forge – DirectX 12, Vulkan, macOS Metal 2 rendering framework. [Apache License 2.0]
FrameGraph – Vulkan abstraction layer that represent frame as a task graph. [BSD 2-clause]
VK9 – Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan
gfx-rs – High-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust. [Apache License 2.0]
vRt – Vulkan API (>=1.1) based unified ray tracing library. [LGPL-3.0]
rostkatze – C++ implementation of Vulkan sitting on D3D12 🐈[Apache License 2.0]
Fossilize – serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types. [MIT]
VulkanSceneGraph – Vulkan/C++17 scene graph project, successor to OpenSceneGraph.
clspv – prototype compiler for a subset of OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders. [Apache License 2.0]
Pumex – cross-platform Vulkan renderer implementing frame graph and simple scene graph. Able to render on many surfaces at once [MIT]
VUDA – header-only lib that provides a CUDA Runtime API interface. [MIT]
Zink – OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan, part of Mesa project. [MIT]
ncnn – High-performance neural network inference framework with Vulkan based GPU inference. [BSD 3-clause]
iMSTK – C++ toolkit for building surgical simulations with Vulkan and VTK backends. [Apache License 2.0]
Quartz – Physically based Vulkan RTX path tracer with a declarative ES7-like scene description language. [LGPL-3.0]
VK², Kotlin Wrapper for Vulkan: code expressiveness and safety meet graphic power [Apache License 2.0]
small3d, Tiny Vulkan based C++ cross-platform game development framework [BSD 3-clause]
VKt/VKh, tools and helpers for Vulkan API, based and uses C++20. [MIT]
Vulkan Kompute – Blazing fast and lightweight Vulkan Compute Framework optimized for advanced GPU processing usecases. [Apache License 2.0]
VKVG – Vulkan 2D graphics library, API follows the same pattern as Cairo graphics lib, but with new functions.
Logi – Light-weight object oriented Vulkan abstraction framework. [BSD 2-clause]
datoviz – High-performance GPU interactive scientific data visualization with Vulkan. [MIT]

Bindings

ash – Vulkan bindings for Rust. [MIT]
libvulkan.lua – Lua bindings for Vulkan.
dvulkan – Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
ErupteD – Another Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
flextGL – Minimal Vulkan header/loader generator and the blog post about it.
vulkan – Haskell bindings for Vulkan and Vulkan Memory Allocator [BSD-3-Clause]
nvk – JavaScript bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]
racket-vulkan – Racket bindings for Vulkan with detailed implementation notes. [MIT]
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]
vulkan-go – Go bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]
PasVulkan – Vulkan bindings plus high-level wrapper library for Object Pascal [Zlib]
vulkan-zig – Vulkan binding generator for Zig [MIT]

Tools

Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2+.
LoaderAndValidationLayers – from KhronosGroup. [Apache Licence 2.0]
renderdoc – by baldurk, a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. [MIT]
- RDCtoVkCpp – converts RenderDoc Vulkan capture to compilable and executable C++ code. [MIT]
VulkanTools – LunarG’s tools including layers, vktrace and vkreplay. [Apache Licence 2.0]
CodeXL – CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]
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.
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.
Open Capture and Analytics Tool (OCAT) – rovides an FPS overlay and performance measurement for D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan. [MIT]
gapid – Graphics API Debugger, can trace and replay Android OpenGL ES and Vulkan applications. [Apache License 2.0]
Arm – PerfDoc – a validation layer against the Mali Application Developer Best Practices document. [MIT]
glsl_trace – library for shader debugging and profiling for Vulkan and OpenGL. [MIT]
MangoHud – Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load. [MIT]

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.
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.