Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer 3.04 released

Release

Version 3.04 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX).

New extensions

This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.2.195 (from 1.2.189), adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions:

  • VK_KHR_maintenance4
  • VK_EXT_rgba10x6_formats
  • VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product
  • VK_EXT_primitive_topology_list_restart
  • VK_EXT_pageable_device_local_memory
  • VK_KHR_shader_integer_dot_product

Support for PowerVR texture compression image format support

This version also finally adds support for the PowerVR texture compression formats provided by the VK_IMG_format_pvrtc. Devices supporting this extension will now report image format support flags for the following formats:

  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC1_2BPP_UNORM_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC1_4BPP_UNORM_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC2_2BPP_UNORM_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC2_4BPP_UNORM_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC1_2BPP_SRGB_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC1_4BPP_SRGB_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC2_2BPP_SRGB_BLOCK_IMG
  • VK_FORMAT_PVRTC2_4BPP_SRGB_BLOCK_IMG

These formats will also show up in the online database as soon as such reports are uploaded.