Vulkan

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Simple vulkan rendering example.

OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using various techniques and the blog about it.

Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.

Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.

Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]

Vulkan 2D graphics library, API follows the same pattern as Cairo graphics lib, but with new functions.

Google's 2D graphics library has a Vulkan backend, demonstrated in a cross-platform sample application with its own window library. [BSD 3-clause] website

Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE]

Blazing fast and lightweight Vulkan Compute Framework optimized for advanced GPU processing usecases. [Apache License 2.0]

High-performance neural network inference framework with Vulkan based GPU inference. [BSD 3-clause]

Vulkan-based C++ GPGPU computing framework. [MIT]

Efficient Vulkan FFT library [MPL-2.0 License]

Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library from AMD. [MIT]

C++ Bindings for VMA, like Vulkan-Hpp

serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types. [MIT]

C++ utility library to jump start Vulkan development by automating instance, physical device, device, and swapchain creation. [MIT]

Vulkan abstraction library using C++11 for memory, resource management, type and thread safety as well as system independency. [Apache]

Vulkan abstraction layer that represent frame as a task graph. [BSD 2-clause]

light-weight middleware layer for the Vulkan API targeting Professional Workstation ISVs. [MIT]

Vookoo is a set of dependency-free utilities to assist in the construction and updating of Vulkan graphics data structres. [MIT]

Modern C++ Vulkan Abstraction focused on performance and a straightforward interface. [MIT]

Vulkan/C++17 scene graph project, successor to OpenSceneGraph.

Multi-platform library to create a Vulkan window, and handle input events. [Apache License 2.0]

An easy-to-use Vulkan render graph for Rust. [MIT]

A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine. [MIT]

cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE]

Vulkan convenience and productivity layer for modern C++, atop Vulkan-Hpp, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT]

C++ framework around Auto-Vk for rapid prototyping, research, and teaching, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT for the framework's code]

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library. [BSD-2-clause]

Modern C++14 library for the development of real-time graphical applications. [MIT]

and the story behind. [BSD]

NXP GTEC C++11 cross-platform demo framework including lots of samples for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenVX, OpenCL, OpenVG and OpenCV. [BSD-3-clause]

a modern cross-platform low-level graphics library that supports OpenGL/GLES, Direct3D11/12 and Vulkan. [Apache License 2.0]

Real-time rendering framework from NVIDIA, supporting mainly DX12, with experimental Vulkan support. [BSD 3-clause]

and the guide. [LICENSE]

Intrinsic is a Vulkan based cross-platform graphics and game engine. [Apache License 2.0]

[MIT]

A modern C++ and easy-to-use framework. [MIT]

Light-weight object oriented Vulkan abstraction framework. [BSD 2-clause]

Modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14. [MIT]

the most famouse C++ creative coding framework. [MIT]

C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE]

cross-platform Vulkan renderer implementing frame graph and simple scene graph. Able to render on many surfaces at once [MIT]

Work-in-progress framework and abstraction layer around Vulkan.

A modern C++17 graphics and compute library filling the gap between Vulkan and high-level APIs like OpenGL. [MIT]

DirectX 12, Vulkan, macOS Metal 2 rendering framework. [Apache License 2.0]

Vulkan framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Especially well-suited for Vulkan beginners, used in university education, by the Research Unit of Computer Graphics, TU Wien. [MIT]

Starter template containing additional functionality and assets. [[LICENSE]](https://github.com/cg-tuwien/VulkanLaunchpadStarter/blob/main/LICENSE)

Cross-platform easy-to-use C++ framework that allows you to quickly initialize Vulkan and get a ready-made environment. Provides high-level abstraction over basic Vulkan objects.

added cross-platform Vulkan graphics support in SDL_vulkan.h. [zlib]

Vulkan Ignoble Software Rasterizer. [MIT]

Vulkan API for D3D12. [Apache License 2.0]

C++ implementation of Vulkan sitting on D3D12 [Apache License 2.0]

header-only lib that provides a CUDA Runtime API interface. [MIT]

prototype compiler for a subset of OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders. [Apache License 2.0]

run Vulkan on iOS and macOS. [Apache-2.0]

OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan, part of Mesa project. [MIT]

OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan.

Vulkan Portability implementation on Metal and D3D12, based on gfx-rs.

Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan

Physically based Vulkan RTX path tracer with a declarative ES7-like scene description language. [LGPL-3.0]

High-performance GPU interactive scientific data visualization with Vulkan. [MIT]

C++ toolkit for building surgical simulations with Vulkan and VTK backends. [Apache License 2.0]

Library for compiling glsl to spirv [BSD 3-Clause]

Library for reflection of spirv, simplify the creation of Vulkan pipeline layouts [ Apache-2.0 License]

Library for reflection of spirv, simplify the creation of Vulkan pipeline layouts [ Apache-2.0 License]

Vulkan High Level Framework. [[LICENSE]](https://github.com/nvpro-pipeline/VkHLF/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

converts RenderDoc Vulkan capture to compilable and executable C++ code. [MIT]

by Parminder Singh - Get started with the Vulkan API and its programming techniques using the easy-to-follow examples.

by Pawel Lapinski - Explores a wide range of graphics programming and GPU compute methods to make the best use of the Vulkan API.