awesome-vulkan
github.com/vinjn/awesome-vulkan ↗Awesome Vulkan ecosystem
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Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me khronos resources from awesome-vulkan"
Installation instructions →What's inside
Khronos
Apps
- 3DMark
3DMark API Overhead test.
- Basemark
by Basemark.
- DDraceNetwork
- Doom
by id Software.
- Dota2
by Valve.
- GFXBench 5
by Kishonti.
Libraries
- Acid
A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine. [MIT]
- AMD's Anvil
cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [
- Auto-Vk
Vulkan convenience and productivity layer for modern C++, atop Vulkan-Hpp, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT]
- Auto-Vk-Toolkit
C++ framework around
- bgfx
Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library. [
- bsf
Modern C++14 library for the development of real-time graphical applications. [MIT]
Document
Hardware Support
- AMD
- Driver for Android
- Driver for Desktop
- Driver for Linux for Tegra (L4T)
- Driver for Windows
- gpuinfo
Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems
Samples
- Android port of LunarG samples
- android tutorials
- C# Samples
Port of Overv's tutorials to
- Gears VK
Gears VK is a heavily modified port of the famous "gears" demo to Vulkan/Android/Linux. [MIT]
- gl_vk_bk3dthreaded
Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.
- gl_vk_chopper
Simple vulkan rendering example.
Tutorial
- An overview of next-generation graphics APIs
covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.
- 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.
- jhenriques's tutorial
- Kohi Game Engine Series
"Vulkan Game Engine series, where we make a game engine from the ground up using C and Vulkan".
- Lunarg's tutorial
Tools
- 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.
- Arm - PerfDoc
a validation layer against the Mali Application Developer Best Practices document. [MIT]
- CodeXL
CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]
- gapid
Graphics API Debugger, can trace and replay Android OpenGL ES and Vulkan applications. [Apache License 2.0]
- glsl_trace
library for shader debugging and profiling for Vulkan and OpenGL. [MIT]
- LoaderAndValidationLayers
from KhronosGroup. [Apache Licence 2.0]
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