https://www.saschawillems.de/tags/vulkan-capsviewer/ Recent content in vulkan-capsviewer on Sascha Willems Hugo -- gohugo.io de-de webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/09/11/vulkan-hardware-database-quick-filters/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/09/11/vulkan-hardware-database-quick-filters/ Rethinking filtering Filtering data is one of the most important parts of any database, and the Vulkan hardware database is no exception. Back in April 2025, I added global filters. These let you enable global pre-filters. While that worked, it was not very intuitive. The settings were somewhat hidden away on a separate page, and once enabled, those pre-filters were implicitly applied to all views that supported filtering. That made it cumbersome, or almost impossible, to adjust filters quickly. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/08/23/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.13-with-additional-feature-flags-released/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/08/23/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.13-with-additional-feature-flags-released/ Better late the never Vulkan launched with a small set of format feature flags for images and buffers. These flags can be used to check if an image or buffer supports a given usage scenario. E.g. sampling from an image or using a buffer as the source for a transfer operation. But as the api surface grew, so did the list of format feature flags, making it necessary to not only use a larger data type for those (64 unsigned bits instead of 32) but to also add a new way of querying those flags. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/03/13/improving-performance-of-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/03/13/improving-performance-of-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Tackling performance issues Looking at server statistics, the Vulkan database alone is serving up to 3 million requests per month. A number I would’ve never imagined when I first created this back in 2016. It’s quickly approaching 50k reports and one drawback of such a huge trove of data in combination with that many requests: Performance issues. The database server often can’t handle the traffic and when several people run expensive queries, the database might even run into timeouts. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/02/01/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.11-released/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/02/01/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.11-released/ Version 4.11 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). This version is based on Vulkan Headers 1.4.340 and adds support for the following new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2: VK_EXT_descriptor_heap VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d VK_EXT_shader_long_vector VK_EXT_shader_subgroup_partitioned VK_KHR_internally_synchronized_queues VK_NV_push_constant_bank VK_NV_compute_occupancy_priority https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/12/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.10-released/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/12/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.10-released/ New client application Version 4.10 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). Update to Qt6 Just like the OpenCL hardware capability viewer I recently updated, the Vulkan hardware capability viewer also uses the Qt framework for it’s platform-independent user interface. The app has been on Qt5 for quite some time, but for open source users, Qt5 has been EoL since the end of 2023. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/09/13/vulkan-hardware-database-availability/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:29:20 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/09/13/vulkan-hardware-database-availability/ Causes for the limited database availability Some of you might have noticed issues with accessing the Vulkan Hardware Database since end of July. This was caused by a targeted denial-of-service (DoS) attack in combination with ever-increasing rampant AI bot crawling. Note the spike in July That lead my hosting company to take precautionary measures to avoid negative effects to their own services. One such measure was to block access from certain countries, esp. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06/27/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.02-released/ Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/06/27/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.02-released/ New client application A bit delayed, but version 4.02 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). New extensions This version is based on Vulkan Headers 1.4.320 and adds support for the following new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2: VK_ARM_tensors VK_ARM_data_graph VK_ARM_format_pack VK_EXT_shader_float8 VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory VK_KHR_present_id2 VK_KHR_present_wait2 VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts VK_KHR_maintenance9 VK_KHR_robustness2 VK_VALVE_fragment_density_map_layered Native Linux ARM64 builds (AArch64) Thanks to a contribution by q4a, the Vulkan Hardware Capability viewer now also natively supports Linux on ARM64 (aka AArch64). https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.01-released/ Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-4.01-released/ New client application A bit delayed, but version 4.01 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). New extensions This version is based on Vulkan Headers 1.4.313 and adds support for the following new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2: VK_ARM_pipeline_opacity_micromap VK_EXT_fragment_density_map_offset VK_KHR_depth_clamp_zero_one VK_KHR_maintenance8 VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 VK_KHR_video_maintenance2 VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure VK_NV_cooperative_vector VK_NV_partitioned_acceleration_structure VK_NV_present_metering VK_NV_ray_tracing_linear_swept_spheres Updated build environments One of the reasons it took me so long to update this release were required updates to the build environments. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/05/improved-filtering-added-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/04/05/improved-filtering-added-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Reworking global filters In the last posting I already hinted at reworking how filtering works for the Vulkan Hardware Database. Almost 40,000 reports across multiple platforms is a lot of data, and being able to properly and easily filter that is crucial for a database. Up until now the only global filter option was the api version, so you could e.g. filter all views in the database to show only data based on devices supporting at least that api version. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/01/12/cleaning-up-vulkan-hardware-database-android-reports/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:50:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2025/01/12/cleaning-up-vulkan-hardware-database-android-reports/ Vulkan device properties on Android Compared to desktop environments like Windows and Linux, Vulkan on Android is a very different situation. Aside from the obvious hardware specific differences between full desktop GPUs and integrated mobile GPUs there are issues that also complicate data retrieval for my Vulkan Hardware Database. One such issue is device naming and how GPUs and mobile devices corelate. On desktop a given GPU like a RTX 4070 from NVIDIA always reports the same Vulkan properties for a given driver version, no matter who produced that graphics card. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/12/06/vulkan-1.4-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/12/06/vulkan-1.4-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ Vulkan 1.4 has arrived Just a few days ago Vulkan 1.4 was released to the public. This is another important step forward for the api and adds some interesting new functionality. See this blog from Khronos for more details. The Vulkan documentation site is a good starting point too if you wanna learn about what’s included in that version and also why it’s included. If you’re looking for some code, the Khronos Vulkan Samples show some of the new features that were already available as an extensions, e. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/07/28/extension-detail-pages-for-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/07/28/extension-detail-pages-for-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ New pages for extension details One thing that I always kinda thought was missing from the database was an easy way to pass extension details around. Esp. coverage numbers for platforms. A common question I see in the Vulkan communities I’m active in is “how good is support for this extension”. And usually the answer is “go to the extension list at https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org and filter yourself”. And while that is a way to get an answer to that question, not having an easy way to simply pass around a link that answers this questions has been bugging me for some time now. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/04/01/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.40-released/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/04/01/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.40-released/ New client application Version 3.40 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). An update for the Google Play Android version should land soon. New extensions This version is based on Vulkan Headers 1.3.280 and adds support for the following new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2: VK_EXT_map_memory_placed VK_NV_shader_atomic_float16_vector VK_NV_raw_access_chains VK_NV_ray_tracing_validation Other changes Made some minor adjustments to the JSON output that should hopefully fix some wrongly reported format feature flags JSON’s number type is limited to double, and some drivers reported numbers larger than that, resulting in wrong values stored to the database To avoid this, those flags are now stored as string, avoiding any problems with conversion Updated the LunarG Profiles library https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/01/24/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.33-released/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2024/01/24/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.33-released/ New client application Version 3.33 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). An update for the Google Play Android version is also pending and should be live soon. New extensions As the last release has been a while ago, this version did a rather large jump to Vulkan Headers 1.3.276 and adds support for a lot of new extension features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2: https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/09/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.32-released/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/09/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.32-released/ New client application Version 3.32 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). An update for the Google Plays Android version is also pending and should be live soon. New extensions This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.3.264 adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix VK_EXT_frame_boundary VK_EXT_depth_bias_control VK_EXT_dynamic_rendering_unused_attachments VK_NV_descriptor_pool_overallocation VK_MSFT_layered_driver VK_QCOM_image_processing2 VK_QCOM_filter_cubic_weights VK_QCOM_ycbcr_degamma VK_QCOM_filter_cubic_clamp VK_QNX_external_memory_screen_buffer Other changes Supported image layouts for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy are now properly displayed using their Vulkan enums. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/03/17/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.29-released/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/03/17/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.29-released/ New client application Version 3.29 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android, Mac OSX). An update for the slightly outdated Google Playstore is also pending and should be live soon. New extensions This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.3.243 adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_ARM_shader_core_properties VK_EXT_image_sliced_view_of_3d VK_EXT_pipeline_library_group_handles VK_QCOM_multiview_per_view_render_areas Other changes The new version also includes a usability improvement for filtering data. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/03/04/new-surface-data-listings-for-the-vulkan-database/ Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2023/03/04/new-surface-data-listings-for-the-vulkan-database/ New global surface data listings Being able to filter for all data available from submitted reports is an important aspect of the database, so I’m constantly adding new global listings that also let you check coverage numbers. The surface part of the database was missing two important listings: One for the surface transform modes and one for the surface composite alpha modes. They have been added to the database and quickly let you find out global and per-platform coverage numbers: https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/11/26/reworked-compare-functionality-for-all-gpu-databases/ Sat, 26 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/11/26/reworked-compare-functionality-for-all-gpu-databases/ Comparing devices - Current state A core feature of all my GPU databases (Vulkan, OpenCL, OpenGL and OpenGL ES) is the possibility to compare reports. This lets you quickly see how the implementations differ, e.g. regarding extension support or api limits. For this you check the reports (or devices) to compare from the currently visible list: And after pressing “compare” you’ll get a side-by-side comparison of the selected reports: But the current implementation has an annoying limitation that has been bothering users (and me) for years now: You can only ever select reports (to compare) from the currently visible list of reports. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/11/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.27-released/ Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/11/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.27-released/ New client application Version 3.27 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 1.3.230 adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer (proposal) VK_ARM_shader_core_builtins VK_NV_copy_memory_indirect VK_NV_memory_decompression VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/09/30/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.26-released/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/09/30/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.26-released/ New client application Version 3.26 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 1.3.230 adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_EXT_opacity_micromap VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state3 VK_EXT_device_fault VK_EXT_device_address_binding_report VK_EXT_pipeline_protected_access VK_EXT_legacy_dithering VK_EXT_mutable_descriptor_type VK_EXT_rasterization_order_attachment_access VK_NV_present_barrier VK_NV_optical_flow Changes and bugfixes Updated Vulkan profiles library to the latest version Added detection for Windows 11 (was showing up as Windows 10 in older versions) Fixed a bug with large values for maxTimelineSemaphoreValueDifference Database I also did some minor tweaks and bugfixes to the database: https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/04/29/vulkan-hardware-database-gets-global-api-level-selection/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/04/29/vulkan-hardware-database-gets-global-api-level-selection/ Some background More than 6 years ago (time flies!) I released the Vulkan Hardware Database and Capability Viewer along with the first public release of Vulkan 1.0. Traffic on the database has been rising steadily and is approaching 1,000,000 hits per month. 2021 more than 3,000 reports have been uploaded to the database, a number that also has been steadily increasing since launch. This makes it my mostly used database (compared to OpenGL and OpenGL ES) and judging by the feedback it seems to be a widely and often used feature among Vulkan developers. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/03/12/vulkan-profiles-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ Sat, 12 Mar 2022 07:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/03/12/vulkan-profiles-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ Vulkan profiles Along with Vulkan 1.3, Khronos also introduced Vulkan Profiles into the Vulkan ecosystem: “The new Vulkan profile mechanism enables the precise specification and management of sets of API capabilities. Each profile specifies a core version of Vulkan plus a set of required extensions, with supported limits, features, and formats. Profiles provide a way to precisely communicate functionality requirements and device capabilities between participants in the Vulkan ecosystem to streamline the development and deployment of portable applications. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/01/28/vulkan-1.3-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 07:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2022/01/28/vulkan-1.3-support-for-the-vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database/ New Vulkan version Vulkan 1.3 has just gone public, adding some recent features into the core to establish a new baseline for the api. You can find more information in this blog from Khronos and additional resources in this one. There’ll also be a special Vulkanized webinar on February 1st that’s dedicated to the new version. As with previous releases I added support for the new core version to the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer and the database day-one. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/12/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.05-released/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/12/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.05-released/ Release Version 3.05 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 1.2.200 (from 1.2.195), adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_ARM_rasterization_order_attachment_access VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering VK_EXT_border_color_swizzle VK_EXT_image_view_min_lod VK_EXT_depth_clip_control Bugfixes This version als includes a few fixes: Proxy settings are now properly applied Proxy type has been changed to http (from socks) to increas compatibility Updating reports with missing extensions is now proplery working https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/10/13/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.04-released/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/10/13/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. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/08/01/vulkan-hardware-database-updates/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/08/01/vulkan-hardware-database-updates/ Intro The Vulkan Hardware Database just got another large update, bringing some substantial new features, quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes. A large part of the code has been reworked to make it easier to maintain and expand, and also more secure. Reworked format support views The biggest change in functionality are the reworked format support views. Instead of a single view that would only tell coverage for “is a format supported linear/optimal tiling or buffers”, the listings have been split into separate listings for linear tiling, optimal tiling and buffer format support and now list device coverage by format and flag. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/07/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.02-released/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/07/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.02-released/ Release Version 3.02 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 1.2.184 (from 1.2.175), adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_EXT_physical_device_drm VK_EXT_multi_draw VK_EXT_global_priority_query VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow VK_HUAWEI_subpass_shading VK_NV_ray_tracing_motion_blur VK_NV_external_memory_rdma VK_EXT_provoking_vertex VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2 Queue family presentation support on Linux This version also fixes a long-standing issue with presentation support on Linux always getting reported as false. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/04/24/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.01-released/ Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/04/24/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-3.01-released/ Release Version 3.01 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 1.2.175, adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_EXT_ycbcr_2plane_444_formats VK_EXT_vertex_input_dynamic_state VK_EXT_color_write_enable VK_KHR_synchronization2 VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout VK_NV_inherited_viewport_scissor Queue family flags for Video encode and decode This version also adds support for the video decode and encode queue family flags that have been introduced with the provisional Vulkan Video acceleration extensions. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/02/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-now-available-on-ios/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:40:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/02/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-now-available-on-ios/ New target platform - iOS Thanks to a contribution by the fine folks at LunarG, the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now also available on Apple’s iOS based devices. Adding the fifth supported platform, which means that the app is now available on almost every device supporting Vulkan. I have also unlocked the iOS for the database so you can now filter and search through Vulkan data for all iOS devices present in the database. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/01/10/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database-update-3.0/ Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2021/01/10/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-and-database-update-3.0/ Intro 2021 starts with a huge update for both the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer application and the accompanying Vulkan Hardware Database, bringing some long-awaited features along with many smaller changes, additions and improvements. Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer 3.0 Update mechanism One of the most requested features was a proper update mechanism, that would allow users to update reports with stuff added in newer versions. This version finally adds such an update mechanism. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/12/06/vulkan-hardware-database-extension-feature-additions/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 15:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/12/06/vulkan-hardware-database-extension-feature-additions/ New extension data features The Vulkan hardware database just got another big feature update, adding some long outstanding functionality mostly related to extension features and properties.The Vulkan hardware capability viewer got support for those some time ago, and the database already displays these for single reports. But up until now there were no listings on those extension related information. This meant it was not possible to filter devices based on that data. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/12/06/vulkan-hardware-database-extension-feature-additions/ Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:30:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/12/06/vulkan-hardware-database-extension-feature-additions/ New extension data features The Vulkan hardware database just got another big feature update, adding some long outstanding functionality mostly related to extension features and properties.The Vulkan hardware capability viewer got support for those some time ago, and the database already displays these for single reports. But up until now there were no listings on those extension related information. This meant it was not possible to filter devices based on that data. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/11/27/vulkan-samples-and-hardware-capability-viewer-updated-to-final-ray-tracing-extensions/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 20:15:46 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/11/27/vulkan-samples-and-hardware-capability-viewer-updated-to-final-ray-tracing-extensions/ Vulkan ray tracing extensions final specifications have been released The finalized specifications for the cross-vendor hardware accelerated ray tracing extensions have finally been released, after being available as a provisional extension for some time now. So Vulkan now has official cross-vendor, cross-os support for accessing hardware accelerated ray tracing features. A great overview can be found on the Khronos blog, along with a great article on how ray tracing works. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/10/11/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-mac-osx-support-device-simulation-json/ Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:45:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/10/11/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-mac-osx-support-device-simulation-json/ New target platform - Mac OSX With the recent updates from the Vulkan® Portability™ initiative and the addition of the relevant extensions in release 2.21, Mac OSX has become an even more important target for Vulkan applications. So I decided to officially add support for Mac OSX to the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer. This only required a few changes to the application’s source code (mostly related to surface extensions) and a new target for the Travis CI setup to build the binaries. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/10/03/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.21-with-support-for-vulkan-portability-released/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 10:20:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/10/03/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.21-with-support-for-vulkan-portability-released/ Release Version 2.21 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). New extensions This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.2.154, adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_KHR_portability_subset VK_EXT_4444_formats Vulkan Portability Most notable is the addition of VK_KHR_portability_subset to support the Vulkan® Portability™ initiative (github). This extension allows non-conformant Vulkan implementations to be built on top of other graphics api like Metal or DirectX, and allows identification of features missing for a fully-conformant Vulkan implementation. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/08/02/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.2-released/ Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:15:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/08/02/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.2-released/ Release Version 2.2 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). New extensions This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.2.148, adding support for reading new features and properties provided via VK_KHR_GET_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_PROPERTIES_2 for the following extensions: VK_EXT_fragment_density_map2 VK_EXT_shader_atomic_float VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state VK_EXT_private_data VK_EXT_image_robustness Wayland support Also new with this version is a dedicated build for Wayland. The Linux versions have always been built for X11, but thanks to external contributions, the application now also has a native Wayland version available at the download page. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/01/11/vulkan-hardware-database-feature-update/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 08:00:00 +0100 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2020/01/11/vulkan-hardware-database-feature-update/ Intro The Vulkan hardware database just got one of it’s biggest updates, bringing with it some fundamental changes, lots of optimizations and some quality-of-life improvements. The main reason behind this update were requests from inside the Khronos group, asking for feature coverage based reporting. What does Feature coverage mean? Up until now if you were looking for a specific extension and the devices (or reports) that supported it, the database would only tell you that a device would support the extension, with the driver version being reported just being the latest known version. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/12/02/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.03-released/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:30:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/12/02/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.03-released/ Version 2.03 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.1.129, adding support for new extensions introduced with this header: VK_KHR_performance_query VK_KHR_separate_depth_stencil_layouts VK_KHR_buffer_device_address Aside from new support for these new extensions, this release also includes some small bugfixes related to surface extensions and adds a mapping for VK_PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU. This is of interest for those that are using software Vulkan implementations like Swiftshader or gfxportability. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.02-released/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:30:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/08/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.02-released/ Version 2.02 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.1.124, adding support for all new extensions introduced with this header: VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore VK_KHR_shader_clock The reasons behind this new release just 3 days after the last one is the new new VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore extension, one that people have been anticipating for long. And as there are already drivers supporting this out in the wild, e. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.01-released/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:25:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.01-released/ Version 2.01 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.1.123, adding support for all new extensions introduced with this header: VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types The main reason for this update is another one though, as it also fixes a bug for extension properties with array values not being properly saved to json and thus not being stored in the database. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.01-released/ Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:25:00 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/10/05/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.01-released/ Version 2.01 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version has been updated to Vulkan Headers 1.1.123, adding support for all new extensions introduced with this header: VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_extended_types The main reason for this update is another one though, as it also fixes a bug for extension properties with array values not being properly saved to json and thus not being stored in the database. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/08/30/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.00-released/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:00:50 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/08/30/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-2.00-released/ Version 2.00 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). The major version bump is caused by a big change in how the code for reading device extension properties and features is generated. You can find a detailled rundown on how this works below. You can download the new version from vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. Appimage for Linux Deploying Qt applications on Linux is not as easy as on Windows, esp. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/06/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.93-released/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:16:53 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/06/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.93-released/ Version 1.93 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds support for reading additional features and properties for the following extensions: VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock VK_NV_shader_sm_builtins VK_KHR_depth_stencil_resolve properties VK_EXT_buffer_device_address features VK_EXT_pci_bus_info features In addition there were also a few changes to the Android version of the app: The app is now using the arm64-v8a architecture, as this is a requirement for distributing Android apps in Google’s playstore beginngin this August. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/04/13/device-based-views-for-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Sat, 13 Apr 2019 18:25:42 +0200 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2019/04/13/device-based-views-for-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ I have just pushed the first big fundamental update to the Vulkan hardware database since it went live in february 2016. With more than 5,000 reports uploaded it already contains lots of valuable data, but I felt that the visualization was lacking. When creating the Vulkan hardware database, I took the same approach as with the OpenGL and OpenGL ES database, making the web front-end more or less as pretty view of the database setup. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/12/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.92-released/ Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:28:52 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/12/07/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.92-released/ Version 1.92 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds support for reading additional features and properties for the following extensions: VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8 VK_KHR_shader_float_controls VK_EXT_fragment_density_map You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/11/17/updates-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database-and-the-hardware-capability-viewer/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 08:44:39 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/11/17/updates-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database-and-the-hardware-capability-viewer/ I have released a small update of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer to 1.91 for Windows and Linux. It adds support for reading the features of the recently added VK_EXT_transform_feedback extension and replaces the experimental VK_NVX_raytracing extension with VK_NV_ray_tracing. You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. New features for the online Hardware Database The online hardware database at https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org also got a few new features and now also has dedicated listings and pages for properties and features that are specific to extension. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/10/06/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.9-released/ Sat, 06 Oct 2018 15:44:15 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/10/06/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.9-released/ Version 1.9 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds support for reading additional features and properties for the following extensions: VK_KHR_driver_properties VK_KHR_shader_atomic_int64 VK_NVX_raytracing VK_NV_mesh_shader VK_NV_shading_rate_image VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives VK_AMD_shader_core_properties You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/09/15/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.8-released/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:04:44 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/09/15/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.8-released/ Version 1.8 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). As with 1.8 this version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds support for new extensions: VK_EXT_inline_uniform_block VK_KHR_vulkan_memory_model VK_EXT_vertex_attribute_divisor The UI has also been slightly updated. Instead of listing extension features and properties on a separate tab, these are now included in the extensions tab: You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/08/15/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.7-released/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:23:06 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/08/15/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.7-released/ Version 1.7 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). As with 1.7 this version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds support for new extensions: VK_EXT_conditional_rendering VK_KHR_8bit_storage You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/04/26/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.6-released/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:44:41 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2018/04/26/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.6-released/ Version 1.7 of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). As with 1.6 this version fully supports Vulkan 1.1 and adds a few new features: Support for the new VK_KHR_push_descriptor extension Support for YCBCR formats You can download the new version from https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/10/30/combined-vulkan-and-opengl-es-listing-for-android/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:26:13 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/10/30/combined-vulkan-and-opengl-es-listing-for-android/ Upon popular request I finally got around combining android device data from my Vulkan and OpenGL ES hardware databases into a convenient table. This should be handy if you plan on supporting both apis on Vulkan or if you just need to check for general device support. The new page can be reached via https://android.gpuinfo.org/ It combines all android device reports from the Vulkan database with all reports from the OpenGL ES database and also uses google’s official device list for translating device IDs (stored with Vulkan and OpenGL ES reports) into actual retail names. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/05/28/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.4-released/ Sun, 28 May 2017 10:47:09 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/05/28/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.4-released/ A new version of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer is now available for all platforms (Windows, Linux, Android). This is the biggest update since I released this tool, including lots of new features that also brought along a few changes to the online database. I also decided to drop the “beta” tag now that more than 1,300 reports have been uploaded, making this the first non-beta release of the Vulkan Hardware Capability viewer. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/05/06/updates-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Sat, 06 May 2017 18:22:37 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2017/05/06/updates-to-the-vulkan-hardware-database/ Server-side processing (performance) In preparation for the next release of the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer I published a major change to the Vulkan online hardware database at http://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/. Up until now all data was handled client-side, so when loading up the report listing all reports were fetched and displayed by the client. While this was more or less fine in the beginning, delivering all reports to the client even if only the 25 newest ones were visible now takes several seconds (even on a fast connection) and fetching all rows for each visitor is also putting strain on the database. https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2016/11/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.2-released/ Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:22:05 +0000 webmaster@saschawillems.de (www.saschawillems.de) https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2016/11/19/vulkan-hardware-capability-viewer-1.2-released/ I have released an update to the Vulkan Hardware Capability Viewer. The new version (1.2) adds support for os-specific surface capabilities that are added to the reports and online database. This adds a new category to the tool and reports at the online database (for example this one) containing: Surface properties (extents, usage flags, transforms, etc.) Surface Formats (incl. color spaces) Present modes You can download the new version from https://vulkan.