New update for the @vulkan #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: https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Arm Performance Studio 2025.3 is now out! Minor release, so no huge new features, but more usability polish and bug fixes.

Free Android profiling tools for Arm CPUs and Mali GPUs. Give it a try.

https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/Arm%20Performance%20Studio#Downloads

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 once again with the introduction of VP9 decoding. VP9 was among the first royalty-free codecs to gain mass adoption and is still extensively used in video-on-demand and real-time communications.

Learn more: https://khr.io/1j2

A reminder that June 10th and 11th Rendering Engine Architecture Conference (REAC) will take place - an free online event with 6 interesting talks over 2 days. https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

Finally finished adding @slang shaders to all my (almost 100) @vulkan open source samples and wrote a bit about it here:

https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06/03/shaders-for-vulkan-samples-now-also-available-in-slang/

tl;dr: I very much enjoyed this :)

@gfxstrand Vulkan conformance for the Matrox G400 when?

*jk*

You're doing an awesome job with NVK.

NVK on Blackwell, still lots of missing pieces, but can run a few demos!

Mesa 25.1 got released today.

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-announce/2025-May/000802.html

This is big news for Nouveau users. Mesa 25.1 brings:

• Vulkan conformance for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs (https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-enabled-for-maxwell,-pascal,-and-volta-gpus.html)
• Users with Turing and later GPUs will now get NVK+Zink by default for OpenGL instead of the old OpenGL driver. NVK+Zink is OpenGL 4.6 conformant, faster, and more stable than the old OpenGL driver. (https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/goodbye-nouveau-gl-hello-zink.html)

Happy gaming! 💜

A few weeks ago, I posted a blog walking through a very simple example of how you can use Slang's autodiff to make a set of gaussian splats learn an image -- yesterday, I finally posted the follow-up article that shows how you can speed things up to achieve much better image quality in much less time: https://shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04/30/neural-graphics-first-principles-performance/

a reminder that I'm still looking for work if anyone needs an engineer specialized in UI and 3D/graphics 👀

I did some pretty amazing (NDA) stuff at PlayStation, and my personal open source work is forward thinking too 🧠🔮✨

About a month ago, I spent a few weeks fighting with ancient hardware and now Maxwell+ GPUs are all Vulkan 1.4 conformant with NVK:

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-enabled-for-maxwell,-pascal,-and-volta-gpus.html

As it says in the blog post, Kepler is on the way but no guarantees as to when that will happen.

New update for the @vulkan #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: https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

Vulkan is ready! 🌋
...for testing.

Help getting Vulkan ready by testing it and sharing your feedback with the developers. Learn more: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-feedback-and-testing/39900 #b3d #Vulkan

I have reworked filtering for the #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. Also added a QoL improvment for selecting your default platform:

https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/05/improved-filtering-added-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/

@dotstdy Prob. an edge case and validation might be too strict. Another option is shaderStorageImageWriteWithoutFormat, which lets you omit the format of he image, so no more need for aliasing, see https://docs.vulkan.org/spec/latest/chapters/formats.html#formats-without-shader-storage-format

I got a comment at Vulkanised that really resonated, asking how folks from traditional triangle-mesh-land can approach neural graphics. Because it was also new to me really recently, I thought I should take a crack at writing a welcoming introduction for beginners. Here's the result:
https://shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04/04/neural-gfx-in-an-afternoon/

New blog post! "Measuring acceleration structures", in which we will compare BVH costs on various GPU architectures and drivers and attempt to understand the details enough on AMD hardware to make sense of the numbers!

Boosts appreciated :)

https://zeux.io/2025/03/31/measuring-acceleration-structures/

@wolfpld Yeah, esp. the "negative" part is something that's lacking. I had something like that in the past, but data was hard to interpret. Grouping or displaying more information (e.g. what vendor) is a good idea. I'll try to come up with something.

SDL3 is officially released! https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.2.0

@tojiro Yeah, felt the urge to work on something like this after playing several games from that genre. It's a nice and easy way to draw lots of things without having to create/find good 3D models.

The working title is "Bindless survivors" btw. ;)