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

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

The Vulkanised 2026 program has been released!

The 2026 program includes keynote presentations & technical talks spanning a wide range of topics that matter to everyone using Vulkan

Explore the program and register today!
vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #api #programming #gpu #raytracing

This Sunday is the deadline for submissions to Vulkanised 2026. Submit your title and short abstract today!

Vulkanised 2026 submissions: vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #vulkanised #GPU #API

Less than a month before the deadline for Vulkanised submissions passes on Sunday, October 12th. Vulkanised provides a great opportunity to share your work, your ideas, and unique perspectives with your peers in the Vulkan ecosystem.

www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...
#vulkan #api

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

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

Vulkanised is coming to San Diego on February 9-11, 2026, and we are pleased to announce the call for submissions is now open until October 12! We are seeking submissions from Vulkan experts eager to share their work.

Learn more: www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...

Synchronization in Vulkan has been a frustrating challenge for many developers. So, in order to simplify, we present the VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts extension which aims to eliminate the need for most layout transitions entirely.

Learn more: khr.io/1ky
#vulkan #synchronization #API

New Vulkan Video Decode VP9 extension! With the release of version 1.4.317 of the Vulkan specification, this set of extensions is being expanded with the introduction of VP9 decoding.

khr.io/1j2
#vulkan #vulkanVideo #video

This new sample demonstrates one of the functionalities of VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3, allowing dynamic change sampling without the need to swap pipelines.
github.com/KhronosGroup...

Vulkanised 2025 kicks off tomorrow! This sold-out event is the premiere Vulkan event of the year, and we are super excited to bring you an incredible slate of talks & panels in Cambridge. We especially want to thank our incredible sponsors!

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...

Vulkan Chair, Ralph Potter, hosted a wonderful Vulkan Birds of a Feather at SIGGRAPH Asia. The slides and video are available on the event page: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...

Vulkan 1.4 integrates and mandates support for many proven features into its core specification, expanding the functionality that is consistently available to developers, greatly simplifying application development and deployment across multiple platforms.

Learn more: khr.io/vulkan14

Agenda and Early-Bird Registration is now available for Vulkanised 2025, the largest annual event dedicated to developers using Vulkan!

vulkan.org/events/vulka...