Helpful Links

• Vulkan API website

• Awesome Vulkan List

• Latest Vulkan API specification

Advantages of Vulkan API

• A Brief Overview Of Vulkan API

• NVIDIA developer: What Is Vulkan?

• Stackoverflow: What can Vulkan do specifically that OpenGL 4.6+ cannot?

• Stackexchange gamedev: What is Vulkan and how does it differ from OpenGL?

• Stuck on OpenGL ES? Time to move on! Why Vulkan is the future of graphics

• What advantages does Vulkan have over already established graphics APIs?

Getting Started with Vulkan API

Porting your engine to Vulkan or DX12

Adam Sawicki, Developer Software Engineer, AMD

GDC 2018 - Getting explicit: How Hard is Vulkan really?

Dustin Land, Software engineer, id-Software

DevU 2017: Getting Started with Vulkan

Developers from Imagination, Google and LunarG

Vulkan Best Practices Roundtable

NVIDIA, Imagination, Qualcomm, id-Software, EPIC-games and Google

Vulkan Memory Management

Jordan Logan, Developer technology engineer, AMD

Vulkanised 2018 - Vulkan Memory Management

Steven Tovey, Developer technology engineer, AMD

Vulkan: State of the Union 2019

Developers from ARM, LunarG, NVIDIA

Vulkanised 2023 Tutorial: An Introduction to Vulkan

Johannes Unterguggenberger, TU Wien, Huawei

Digital Dragons 2021: Adam Sawicki - Efficient Use of GPU Memory in Modern Games

Adam Sawicki, Developer Software Engineer, AMD

Vulkanised 2025: So You Want to Write a Vulkan Renderer in 2025

Charles Giessen, LunarG

Beginner Vulkan API Tutorials

Tip

Use Vulkan Hardware Database to check if your graphics card supports Vulkan API.

• The official Khronos Vulkan samples

• How to learn Vulkan?

• The Vulkan Tutorial

• The Vulkan Guide

• Sascha Willems’ Vulkan C++ examples and demos

• Introduction To Vulkan

• Raw Vulkan: An overview on how to program a Hello Triangle Vulkan application from the ground up.

• Vulkan Tutorial - 101

• Mike Bailey’s Vulkan Page

• Vulkan Debug Utilities Extension

Advanced Vulkan API Tutorials

• Sascha Willems’ glTF2 + PBR (physically based rendering) demo

• NVIDIA Developer Blog: Tips and Tricks: Vulkan Dos and Don’ts

• Vulkan in 30 minutes

• Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer

• Render graphs and Vulkan — a deep dive

• A simple Vulkan Compute example

• Getting Started with the Linux Tarball Vulkan SDK

• Get started with Vulkan on Android

• Use Vulkan API on macOS and iOS using MoltenVK

• Multithreading in Vulkan, where should I start?

• Multi-Threading in Vulkan

• Vulkan Device Generated Commands

• NVIDIA: Vulkan Memory Management

• AMD: Using Vulkan Device Memory

• AMD: Vulkan Barriers Explained

• AMD: GPUOpen performance guide

• VFPR - a Vulkan Forward Plus Renderer

• NVIDIA: Vulkan: the essentials

• The most common Vulkan mistakes

• High-performance, Low-Overhead Rendering with OpenGL and Vulkan

• Get Your Engine Ready for Vulkan on Mobile

• Vulkan’s Key Features on ARM Architecture

Migrating to Vulkan API

• Dustin Land’s blog series ‘I Am Graphics And So Can You’

• Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan

• Porting a Graphics Engine to the Vulkan API

Vulkan Validation Layers

• Vulkan Documentation: Vulkan Validation Overview

• Vulkan Tutorial

• Using the Vulkan Validation Layers

• Vulkan Debug Utilities Extension

Graphics Debuggers

• RenderDoc

• NVIDIA NSight

• AMD’s GPU profiler

Modern C++

• Awesome modern C++

• C++ Core Guidelines