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A curated list of awesome Vulkan libraries, debuggers and resources. Inspired by awesome-opengl ★842 and other awesome-… stuff.

Hardware Support
SDK
IHV Document
Tutorial
Apps
Samples
Libraries
Bindings
Tools
Books
Community

Hardware Support

gpuinfo - Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems
Khronos
NVIDIA
AMD
- Open-source Driver ★270
Imagination
Intel
- Open-source Driver
- Driver for Windows
Qualcomm
ARM

SDK

Document

Tutorial

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
Khronos
Lunarg’s tutorial
Qualcomm Video Tutorial Series - Leans more towards Vulkan for mobile devices.
Raw Vulkan - Overview on how to program a Vulkan application from the ground up.
Siggraph
- An overview of next-generation graphics APIs - covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.
Tutorial by Overv and its github repository ★674. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
vulkan-sxs - explain the Vulkan API step by step and vulkan-sync ★15 ⏳1Y - rephrase Vulkan’s requirements on execution dependencies in a more precise form. [MIT]
Vulkan in 30 minutes - by baldurk.
Vulkan Demos and Tutorials ★43 ⏳1Y [MIT].
Vulkan Basic Graphics Samples ★1 - Collection of simple graphics samples that are written using Magma library.

Apps

The Talos Principle - by Croteam.
Dota2 ★53 - by Valve.
Basemark - by Basemark.
GFXBench 5 - by Kishonti.
ProtoStar - by Epic, built with Unreal Engine 4 technology.
Doom - by id Software.
vkQuake ★470 - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm. [GPL]
Linux port of SteamVR ★328 - SteamVR is built on top of the Vulkan API.
3DMark - 3DMark API Overhead test.

Samples

Sascha Willems’s samples and Deferred rendering of Sponza ★51 and his talk of Khronos_meetup_munich.
Sascha Willems’s Vulkan-glTF-PBR ★101 - physical based rendering with Vulkan using glTF 2.0 models. [MIT]
KhronosGroup
- Samples ★440
- Conformance Tests (CTS)
Google
- Android port of LunarG samples ★161.
- android tutorials ★345.
nvpro-samples - NVIDIA DesignWorks Samples. [LICENSE]
- gl_vk_chopper ★127 - Simple vulkan rendering example.
- gl_vk_threaded_cadscene ★78 - OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using veraious techniques and the blog about it.
- gl_vk_bk3dthreaded ★45 ⏳1Y - Vulkan sample rendering 3D with ‘worker-threads’.
- gl_vk_supersampled ★41 ⏳2Y - Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.
NVIDIA GameWorks Samples ★545 - GameWorks cross-platform graphics API samples. [LICENSE]
LunarG’s samples ★595
vkcube ★46 - ‘vkcube’ sample from krh, works under X, wayland and VT console with drm/kms.
Stardust from Intel ★68 ⏳1Y - The Stardust sample application uses the Vulkan graphics API to efficiently render a cloud of animated particles. [LICENSE]
Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm ★470.
C# Samples - Port of Overv’s tutorials to SharpVk ★49 [MIT]
Vulkan-Forward-Plus-Renderer ★360 ⏳1Y - VFPR - a Vulkan Forward Plus Renderer. [MIT]
Laugh Engine ★263 ⏳1Y - Vulkan implementation of real-time PBR renderer.
tinyrenderers ★280 - Single header implemenations of Vulkan and D3D12 renderers.
TLVulkanRenderer ★39 ⏳1Y - Simple Vulkan-based renderer for my master thesis on real-time transparency. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
Vulkan-Hpp Samples ★130 - Fork of Sascha Willems excellent Vulkan examples that uses Vulkan-Hpp.
SDF Font Demo ★107 ⏳1Y - Text rendering in Vulkan by estimating signed distance. [MIT]
vulkantoy ★16 ⏳1Y - Shadertoy image shader test app with Vulkan. [MIT]
GL_vs_VK ★36 - Comparison of OpenGL and Vulkan API in terms of performance. [MIT]

Libraries

Cinder ★3531 and the story behind. [BSD]
SDL - added cross-platform Vulkan graphics support in SDL_vulkan.h. [zlib]
DemoFramework - NXP GTEC C++11 cross-platform demo framework including lots of samples for Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenVX, OpenCL, OpenVG and OpenCV. [BSD-3-clause]
openFrameworks ★44 - the most famouse C++ creative coding framework. [MIT]
bgfx ★4754 - Cross-platform rendering library, bgfx backend is WIP. [LICENSE]
PowerVR SDK ★259 - C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE]
glfw ★3720 and the guide. [LICENSE]
MoltenVK ★1090 - run Vulkan on iOS and macOS. [Apache-2.0]
imgui ★11251 - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]
vuh ★2 - Vulkan-based C++ GPGPU computing framework. [MIT]
libvc ★86 ⏳2Y - Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE]
AMD’s Anvil ★360 - cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE]
- Introductory Vulkan sample ★52. [MIT]
Vulkan Memory Allocator ★292 - Easy to integrate Vulkan memory allocation library from AMD. [MIT]
V-EZ ★110 - light-weight middleware layer for the Vulkan API targeting Professional Workstation ISVs. [MIT]
Google’s vulkan-cpp-library - Vulkan abstraction library using C++11 for memory, resource management, type and thread safety as well as system independency. [Apache]
Vookoo ★96 - Vookoo is a set of dependency-free utilities to assist in the construction and updating of Vulkan graphics data structres. [MIT]
vpp ★114 - Modern C++ Vulkan Abstraction focused on performance and a straightforward interface. [MIT]
Intrinsic Engine - Intrinsic is a Vulkan based cross-platform graphics and game engine. [Apache License 2.0]
glo / OpenGL Overload ★236 ⏳1Y - OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan.
Skia - 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
Spectrum - Work-in-progress framework and abstraction layer around Vulkan.
VkHLF ★249 - Vulkan High Level Framework. [LICENSE]
VulkanOnD3D12 ★33 - Vulkan API for D3D12. [Apache License 2.0]
visor ★24 - Vulkan Ignoble Software Rasterizer. [MIT]
Lugdunum ★186 - Modern cross-platform 3D rendering engine built with Vulkan and modern C++14. [MIT]
Vulkan-WSIWindow ★37 ⏳1Y - Multi-platform library to create a Vulkan window, and handle input events. [Apache License 2.0]
Falcor ★422 - Real-time rendering framework from NVIDIA, supporting DX12 and Vulkan. [BSD 3-clause]
The-Forge ★477 - DirectX 12, Vulkan, macOS Metal 2 rendering framework. [Apache License 2.0]
VK9 ★572 - Direct3D 9 compatibility layer using Vulkan
gfx-rs ★1782 - High-performance, bindless graphics API for Rust. [Apache License 2.0]
satellite-oem ★33 - Vulkan API (>=1.1) based ray tracing engine for geeks, enthusiasts and developers, is not final production for end users
rostkatze ★48 - C++ implementation of Vulkan sitting on D3D12 🐈[Apache License 2.0]
Fossilize ★23 - serialization format for various persistent Vulkan object types. [MIT]
VulkanSceneGraph ★31 - next-gen OpenSceneGraph.
clspv ★127 - prototype compiler for a subset of OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders. [Apache License 2.0]

Bindings

libvulkan.lua - Lua bindings for Vulkan.
dvulkan ★13 ⏳1Y - Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
ErupteD ★25 - Another Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
Haskell bindings for Vulkan ★53 - [LICENSE]
Vulkan-hpp ★1010 Open-Source Vulkan C++ API originated from NVIDIA and the blog about it.
VulkanSharp ★212 - C# bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]
Vulkano ★1273 - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API. [MIT]
LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library 3 has Vulkan bindings. [BSD]
SharpVk ★49 - C# bindings for Vulkan with Linq-to-SPIR-V & NuGet package. [MIT]
vulkan ★80 - Ultimate Python bindings for Vulkan generated with CFFI. [Apache Licence 2.0]

Tools

Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2+.
LoaderAndValidationLayers ★410 - from KhronosGroup. [Apache Licence 2.0]
renderdoc ★2652 - by baldurk, a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. [MIT]
VulkanTools ★245 - LunarG’s tools including layers, vktrace and vkreplay. [Apache Licence 2.0]
CodeXL ★721 - CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]
Qualcomm GPU Tools.
Mali Graphics Debugger.
Open Capture and Analytics Tool (OCAT) ★96 - rovides an FPS overlay and performance measurement for D3D11, D3D12, and Vulkan. [MIT]
gapid ★769 - Graphics API Debugger, can trace and replay Android OpenGL ES and Vulkan applications. [Apache License 2.0]
ARM - PerfDoc ★56 - a validation layer against the Mali Application Developer Best Practices document. [MIT]

Books

Introduction to Computer Graphics and the Vulkan API by Kenwright - Introduce the reader to the exciting topic of computer graphics from a grounds-up practical perspective with the Vulkan API.
Learning Vulkan - by Parminder Singh - Get started with the Vulkan API and its programming techniques using the easy-to-follow examples.
- Book’s Examples ★39
Vulkan Cookbook- by Pawel Lapinski - Explores a wide range of graphics programming and GPU compute methods to make the best use of the Vulkan API.
- Book’s Examples ★112
Vulkan Programming Guide - by Graham Sellers and John Kessenich - Introduces powerful 3D development techniques for many fields.

Community

awesome ★87749 - Curated list of awesome lists.
awesome-opengl ★842 - Curated list of awesome OpenGL libraries, debuggers and resources.
gamedev ★4946 - Awesome list about game development.
graphics-resources ★1143 ⏳1Y - List of graphic programming resources.
awesome-d3d12 ★33 - Curated list of awesome D3D12 libraries, debuggers and resources.

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