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

• Hardware Support
• SDK
• IHV Document
• Tutorial
• Apps
• Samples
• Libraries
• Bindings
• Tools

• gpuinfo - Vulkan Hardware Database by Sascha Willems
• Khronos
• NVIDIA
• Driver for Desktop
• Driver for Android
• Driver for Linux for Tegra (L4T)
• AMD
• Imagination
• Intel
• Open-source Driver
• Driver for Windows
• Qualcomm
• ARM

• For Windows & Linux
• For Android

• AMD
• Vulkan Fast Paths
• Let Your Game Shine – Optimizing DirectX 12 and Vulkan Performance with AMD CodeXL
• D3D12 & Vulkan: Lessons Learned
• Say Hello to a New Rendering API in Town!
• Vulkan Renderpasses
• Performance tweets series: Barriers, fences, synchronization
• Using the Vulkan™ Validation Layers
• Most common mistakes in Vulkan apps
• NVIDIA
• GPU-Driven Rendering
• GDC 16 - High-performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan
• GDC 16 - Vulkan and NVIDIA – The Essentials
• Engaging the Voyage to Vulkan
• Vulkan Shader Resource Binding
• Vulkan Memory Management
• OpenGL like Vulkan
• Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan
• Siggraph 15 talk - Vulkan on NVIDIA GPUs
• ARM
• Porting a Graphics Engine to the Vulkan API
• Multi-Threading in Vulkan
• Vulkan's Key Features on ARM Architecture
• Get Your Engine Ready for Vulkan on Mobile
• Mali Vulkan Tutorials - Basic Vulkan tutorials from the Mali Vulkan SDK
• Intel
  • API without Secrets: Introduction to Vulkan [LICENSE]
    • Part 1: The Beginning
    • Part 2: Swap Chain
    • Part 3: First Triangle
    • Part 4: Vertex Attributes
• Imagination
  • Efficient Rendering with Vulkan on PowerVR
  • Migrating to Vulkan with the New PowerVR Graphics Framework
• Samgsung
  • Siggraph 2016 - Best Practices for Mobile
• Epic
  • Efficient use of Vulkan on UE4 Mobile

• jhenriques's tutorial
• Khronos
• Vulkan 1.0 Quick Reference
• Vulkan 1.0 Specification
• GDC 2016 Presentations
• Moving to Vulkan Khronos UK May16
• SIGGRPAH 2016 3D BOF
• Vulkan Programming Guide - AKA the Red Book.
• Lunarg's tutorial
• Siggraph
  • An overview of next-generation graphics APIs - covers Vulkan, D3D12 etc.
• vulkan-sxs - explain the Vulkan API step by step and [vulkan-sync] (https://github.com/philiptaylor/vulkan-sync) - rephrase Vulkan's requirements on execution dependencies in a more precise form. [MIT]
• Vulkan in 30 minutes - by baldurk.
• Tutorial by Overv and its github repository. [CC BY-SA 4.0]
• Vulkan Demos and Tutorials [MIT].
• Qualcomm Video Tutorial Series - Leans more towards Vulkan for mobile devices.

• The Talos Principle - by Croteam.
• Dota2 - by Valve.
• Basemark - by Basemark.
• GFXBench 5 - by Kishonti.
• ProtoStar - by Epic, built with Unreal Engine 4 technology.
• Doom - by id Software.
• vkQuake - Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm. [GPL]

• Sascha Willems's samples and Deferred rendering of Sponza and his talk of Khronos_meetup_munich.
• McNopper's examples
• KhronosGroup
• Samples
• Conformance Tests (CTS)
• Google
• Android port of LunarG samples.
• android tutorials.
• nvpro-samples - NVIDIA DesignWorks Samples. [LICENSE]
• gl_vk_chopper - Simple vulkan rendering example.
• gl_vk_threaded_cadscene - OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using veraious techniques and the blog about it.
• gl_vk_bk3dthreaded - Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'.
• gl_vk_supersampled - Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering.
• NVIDIA GameWorks Samples - GameWorks cross-platform graphics API samples. [LICENSE]
• LunarG's samples
• vkcube - 'vkcube' sample from krh, works under X, wayland and VT console with drm/kms.
• Stardust from Intel - The Stardust sample application uses the Vulkan graphics API to efficiently render a cloud of animated particles. [LICENSE]
• Introductory Vulkan sample from AMD. [MIT]
• Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm.
• C# Samples - Port of Overv's tutorials to SharpVk [MIT]

• Cinder and the story behind. [BSD]
• openFrameworks - the most famouse C++ creative coding framework. [MIT]
• bgfx - Cross-platform rendering library, bgfx backend is WIP. [LICENSE]
• PowerVR SDK - C++ cross-platform 3D graphics SDK to speed up development of Vulkan and GLES. [LICENSE]
• glfw and the guide. [LICENSE]
• MetalVK - run Vulkan on iOS and OS X. [Non-free]
• imgui - Immediate Mode Graphical User interface. [MIT]
• libvc - Vulkan Compute for C++. [LICENSE]
• AMD's Anvil - cross-platform framework for Vulkan. [LICENSE]
• 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 - Vulkan Utititles Library. [MIT]
• vpp - 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. [GPL]

• libvulkan.lua - Lua bindings for Vulkan.
• dvulkan - Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
• ErupteD - Another Auto-generated D bindings for Vulkan.
• Haskell bindings for Vulkan - [LICENSE]
• Vulkan-hpp Open-Source Vulkan C++ API originated from NVIDIA and the blog about it.
• VulkanSharp - C# bindings for Vulkan. [MIT]
• Vulkano - Safe and rich Rust wrapper around the Vulkan API. [MIT]
• LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library 3 has Vulkan bindings. [BSD]
• SharpVk - C# bindings for Vulkan with Linq-to-SPIR-V & NuGet package [MIT]

• Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 5.2+.
• LoaderAndValidationLayers - from KhronosGroup. [MIT]
• renderdoc - by baldurk, a stand-alone graphics debugging tool. [MIT]
• VulkanTools - LunarG's tools including layers, vktrace and vkreplay. [MIT]
• CodeXL - CodeXL goes open source. [MIT]
• Qualcomm GPU Tools.
• Mali Graphics Debugger.

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