There wasn’t any large Vulkan spec replace for SIGGRAPH this 12 months however the frequent level releases proceed rolling on for this excessive efficiency graphics and compute API.
As a uncommon Saturday morning launch, Vulkan 1.3.263 is out as the latest revision. Vulkan 1.3.263 brings a number of fixes and clarifications to the spec — simply 4 GitHub points resolved after which one other handful of inside objects being addressed.
There may be one new extension this go-around and that is VK_NV_descriptor_pool_overallocation for Vulkan 1.3.263. VK_NV_descriptor_pool_overallocation is a brand new extension from NVIDIA for including the power to request extra units or descriptors to be allotted than had been initially specified at creation time. The extension spec explains:
“There are eventualities the place the appliance doesn’t know forward of time what number of descriptor units it might must allocate from a descriptor pool, or what number of descriptors of any of the descriptor varieties it might must allocate from the descriptor pool.
This extension offers functions the power to request the implementation permit extra units or descriptors to be allotted than initially specified at descriptor pool creation time, topic to out there sources.”
Extra particulars on the alterations with Vulkan 1.3.263 through the Vulkan-Docs GitHub.
A NVIDIA 535.43.09 Vulkan beta driver launch can also be anticipated to happen imminently with the most recent Vulkan fixes and extension work there for Linux avid gamers/customers.
