Vulkan

Feb 06, 2025

NVIDIA RTX Mega Geometry Now Available with New Vulkan Samples

Geometric detail in computer graphics has increased exponentially in the past 30 years. To render high quality assets with higher instance counts and greater...
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Oct 27, 2023

Advanced API Performance: Descriptors

By using descriptor types, you can bind resources to shaders and specify how those resources are accessed. This creates efficient communication between the CPU...
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Sep 01, 2023

Advanced API Performance: Shaders

This post covers best practices when working with shaders on NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all Advanced...
6 MIN READ
Apr 13, 2023

Accelerated Motion Processing Brought to Vulkan with the NVIDIA Optical Flow SDK

The NVIDIA Optical Flow Accelerator (NVOFA) is a dedicated hardware unit on newer NVIDIA GPUs for computing optical flow between a pair of images at high...
3 MIN READ
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Jan 30, 2023

GPU-Accelerated Video Processing with NVIDIA In-Depth Support for Vulkan Video

Vulkan Video gives developers the choice of a powerful new API for accessing video processing acceleration. NVIDIA is expanding its commitment to Vulkan Video...
7 MIN READ
Jul 21, 2022

Performance Boosts and Enhanced Features in New Nsight Graphics, Nsight Aftermath Releases

Nsight Graphics 2022.3 and Nsight Aftermath 2022.2 have just been released and are now available to download.  Nsight Graphics 2022.3 The Nsight Graphics...
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Jul 01, 2022

Advanced API Performance: Vulkan Clearing and Presenting

This post covers best practices for Vulkan clearing and presenting on NVIDIA GPUs. To get a high and consistent frame rate in your applications, see all...
3 MIN READ
Feb 24, 2022

Using Semaphore and Memory Sharing Extensions for Vulkan Interop with NVIDIA OpenCL

OpenCL is evolving the way it can interoperate with other APIs, such as Vulkan. This post gives you a tour of the new style of OpenCL interop, which is already...
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Jan 25, 2022

NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2022.1 Supports Latest Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension

Today, NVIDIA announced the latest Nsight Graphics 2022.1, which supports Direct3D (11, 12, DXR), Vulkan 1.3 ray tracing extension, OpenGL, OpenVR, and the...
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Jan 25, 2022

Vulkan 1.3 Broadens Cross-Platform Functionality with Developer-Requested Features

A total of 23 of the most often requested Vulkan extensions developed by NVIDIA and other Khronos members are now incorporated into the brand new Vulkan 1.3...
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Aug 20, 2021

Writing Portable Rendering Code with NVRHI

Modern graphics APIs, such as Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, are designed to provide relatively low-level access to the GPU and eliminate the GPU driver overhead...
16 MIN READ
Jul 19, 2021

Reducing Acceleration Structure Memory with NVIDIA RTXMU

Acceleration structures spatially organize geometry to accelerate ray tracing traversal performance. When you create an acceleration structure, a conservative...
11 MIN READ
Dec 08, 2020

Using Mesh Shaders for Professional Graphics

Mesh shaders were introduced with the Turing architecture and are shipping with Ampere as well. In this post, I offer a detailed look over mesh shader...
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Oct 16, 2020

Preferring Compile-time Errors over Runtime Errors with Vulkan-hpp

One of the most important aspects in professional software development is to detect errors as early as possible. Of course, the best case would be if we...
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Aug 10, 2020

Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

This post gathers best practices based on...
23 MIN READ
Mar 17, 2020

New: Vulkan Device Generated Commands

This post was updated substantially in March 2020. The original post was about the experimental NVX extension, while the current post is about the production NV...
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