The Khronos Group has announced that Shader Execution Reordering in #Vulkan has advanced from a vendor-specific extensionto a multi-vendor Vulkan extension, reducing issues with divergence in ray tracing workloads. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/boostin... #ray #tracing #shader

RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

New update for the @opencl.bsky.social #OpenCL Hardware Capability viewer released. Mostly a maintenance update to improve Android compatibility incl. support for reading OpenCL caps on newer handhelds (e.g. Pixel devices). opencl.gpuinfo.org/download.php

🔔 We’re #Hiring! The Forge Interactive is looking for a Graphics Programmer and an Intern to join our team! 🌐 Apply on LinkedIn: The Forge Interactive, Inc. ✉️ Or email: [email protected] #GraphicsProgramming #Intern #GameDevCareers #OpenRole

New update for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released. This adds in support for several new extensions and adds support for for non-portability implementations on Apple platforms like KosmicKrisp thanks to LunarG. Download at: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

As someone spending almost as much time with Guild Wars 2 as with 3D graphics programming I really appreciate articles like these that get into some of the technical details. And @guildwars2.com IMO still looks a lot better than most recent games :)

Coming up tomorrow: I'm giving a talk/walkthrough of autodiff in Slang! These virtual meetup sessions include time for Q&A, so bring your questions! We'll kick off at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern/5pm CEST.

Autodesk VRED 2026 has introduced new Vulkan renderer alongside the traditional OpenGL real-time pipeline, addressing fundamental limitations while introducing hybrid ray tracing capabilities that significantly enhance visual quality in real-time scenarios on […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Major Update to vk_gaussian_splatting sample by Jean-Eudes Marvie -Unscented transforms allow proper fisheye effect -SPZ file format support And more #vulkan #3dgs github.com/nvpro-sample...

My team is hiring. Let's join Battlefield 6 Rendering Team (Montréal). jobs.ea.com/en_US/ca...

Anpther major update to our cluster lod ray tracing sample. Zorah scene available as glTF raw.githubusercontent.com/nvpro-sample... BLAS caching github.com/nvpro-sample... BLAS merging github.com/nvpro-sample... Special thanks to Adam Marrs, Pyarelal Knowles for ideas and Chris Perrella for zorah.

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

RenderDoc v1.40 is now available! This version includes support for VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, and vulkan 1.4, as well as some other bug fixes an quality of life improvements. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

New blog post discussing a few approaches to bottleneck reduction and GPU utilisation and performance increase interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/g...

Slides from my SIGGRAPH 2025 and CEDEC 2025 talks “Fast as Hell: idTech 8 Global Illumination”, are now publicly available through the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course. Lecture recordings will be available soon on the course's YouTube channel.

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

When I started work on my @vulkan.org #Vulkan C++ samples almost 10 years ago I made some non-optimal decisions esp. around sync and command buffer recording. Finally fixed those and did a write-up with a small retrospective at www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/08...

Jean-Eudes Marvie updated the vk_gaussian_splatting sample with ray tracing techniques github.com/nvpro-sample... @vulkan.org

Back in 2021 I released a Vulkan sample that demonstrated adding ray-tracing to a traditional game render pipeline. Since then the code has rotted away and stopped working. So this week I finally resurrected it! Hope it will keep being a learning resource for beginners. github.com/diharaw/hybr...

We are excited for next week's SIGGRAPH in Vancouver, Canada! Come see our Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, panels, Forging Forward with Vulkan. Don’t miss your chance to connect with us and the wider developer community. www.khronos.org/events/siggr... #SIGGRAPH2025 #vulkan #api

In case anyone is having issues accessing my @vulkan.org #Vulkan hardware database: Looks like someone is running a DDoS against the site. It seems like whoever is doing that has been ramping up hits against the site in recent days. Right now up from the usual 60~80k to almost a million :(

Debugging AMD-Specific Issues with Driver Experiments Tool - new article on my blog. asawicki.info/news_1788_de...

Looks like I’ll be giving a talk about working on X-Plane at GPC 🥳. Covering how we went from a GL 2.1(!) codebase to a modern Vulkan/Metal one and the challenges and advantages of working on a single product for 30 years, with an eye on the unique challenges of a small studio working on flight sims

Just pushed a technique to avoid too many BLAS builds for continuous cluster-based LoD ray tracing. Thanks to Pyarelal Knowles whose instance merging idea was a precursor to this solution and helped on debugging. github.com/nvpro-sample...

Today, with the release of version 1.4.321 of the #Vulkan specification, Vulkan Video is once again being expanded for encoding operations with the introduction of the Encode Intra-refresh extension—the second advanced feature extension for encoding. khr.io/1l7

New update for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released. This adds in support for several new extensions and also is the first version with native builds for Linux ARM64 thanks to an external contribution. Download at: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Playing around with #Vulkan @vulkan.org and JoltPhysics. Integrating Jolt was pretty straight-forward (compared to other physics engines). Both in terms of build setup and code. Nice job @jrouwe.bsky.social :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yc6...

All HPG 2025 papers are now available on the EG digital library. CGF papers: diglib.eg.org/handle/10.23... Conference papers: diglib.eg.org/handle/10.23... It has been a huge honor to act as HPG papers chair and guest editor and I look forward to an exciting program in Copenhagen.

WebGPU train finally leaving the station - now Firefox is shipping! (on Windows to start) "On behalf of Mozilla's WebGPU team, I intend to let WebGPU ride the trains to release in Firefox 141 on Windows." groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...

meshoptimizer 0.24 is out! Featuring new meshlet builder for raytracing workloads, improvements to cluster partitioning, new functions for reindexing, simplification, clustering and coverage computation, many internal improvements and, of course, VS2013 support!

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 394 - June 9th, 2025 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Finally finished adding @shader-slang.bsky.social shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan.org open source samples and wrote a bit about it here: www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06... tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)

New blog post discussing Async Compute, various experiments with pairings and task overlapping and performance impact. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/a...

New blog post: developer.nvidia.com/blog/path-tr...

New blog post. themaister.net/blog/2025/05...

This new sample demonstrates how to render a simple triangle using Vulkan 1.3 core features. It modernizes the traditional "Hello Triangle" Vulkan sample by incorporating Dynamic Rendering, Synchronization2, Extended Dynamic State, and Vertex Buffers github.com/KhronosGroup...

In this new sample, we enhance the previous MobileNeRF implementation sample by using Vulkan Query feature, which leverages the hardware ray tracing capabilities of mobile GPUs that support it -- greatly boosting performance in most use cases. github.com/KhronosGroup...

New update for he @vulkan.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer released. This adds in support for several new extensions. Had to postpone the release due to build infrastructure. Linux users might have to install Fuse to get the appimage to work. Download at: vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

In today's new blog post, I try to provide some intuition and clear up some misconceptions about early Z cull behavior on desktop GPUs. Have a read if that interests you! therealmjp.github.io/posts/to-ear...

I have reworked filtering for the @vulkan.org #Vulkan hardware database. A new settings page allows for more control over global filters applied to the data, hopefully making it easier to limit results to what people are actually looking for: www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04...

meshoptimizer 0.23 is out! Featuring vertex codec v1 (increased compression ratio, faster decompression + even faster on Apple Silicon), improvements to meshlet builder with fewer disconnected clusters and more options for clustered raytracing and hierarchical clusterization, new algorithms for ...

📢NEW RELEASE!🎉 LunarG drops Vulkan 1.4.309.0 SDKs – their 3rd release in 2025! Download now at vulkan.lunarg.com. Details: khr.io/1ie

NVIDIA posts Vulkan RTX neural shader samples. NVIDIA RTX Neural Shaders bring small neural networks into programmable shaders. This technology framework enables the training and deployment of neural networks directly within shaders. developer.nvidia.com/blog/get-sta...

RenderDoc v1.37 is now available! This version contains primarily bugfixes after v1.36, but also includes some improvements and additional functionality support. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

NVIDIA has just released Vulkan samples for RTX Mega Geometry. They should run on all RTX GPUs using the new drivers: github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample...

Hurrah, I'm pretty excited about this: Slang has landed support for cooperative vectors! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/01...

Thanks to a lot of colleagues' great work, happy to share Vulkan samples for RTX Mega Geometry. They should run on all RTX GPUs using today's new drivers github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample... github.com/nvpro-sample...

This new sample demonstrates how to use the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read extension in conjunction with the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering extension. This combination can replace core render and subpasses. github.com/KhronosGroup...