Khronos Blog Archives

Khronos Blog Archives

Bringing Explicit Pipeline Caching Control to Vulkan

The Vulkan® Working Group has released the VK_KHR_pipeline_binary extension, enabling direct retrieval of binary data associated with individual pipelines, bypassing the VkPipelineCache mechanism, and enabling applications to explicitly manage pipeline caching.

Vulkan SC 1.0.15 Released: SPIR-V Validation and New NVIDIA Drivers for Desktop Systems Available

On June 21, 2024 the Vulkan® SC™ working group at the Khronos® Group released the Vulkan SC 1.0.15 specification, the latest maintenance update to the “Vulkan Safety Critical” open standard API, which enables GPU-accelerated graphics and computation to be deployed in systems that are certified to meet industry functional safety standards.