Vulkan Tutorial

Vulkan is a low-level, low-overhead API for 3D graphics and computing. This tutorial is hosted in git repository https://github.com/Vulkan-FIT/VulkanTutorial. All text, images and example code could be downloaded from there. The tutorial is organized in number of series, each focused on a little different area of Vulkan or rendering in general:

Devices, Instance and Loader

1. List of Devices
2. Development Tools
3. Device Info
4. Advanced Device Info
5. Logical Device

Command submission, pipelines and queries

6. Command Submission
7. Compute Shader
8. Time queries
9. Double and Half Precision

Rendering basics

10. Window
11. Render Pass
12. Graphics pipeline
13. Hello Triangle

Fractal application

14. Mandelbrot set
15. Double precision computations

Other useful resources

• Vulkan specification - I recommend the core only specification for inital study, or the one with KHR extensions (with ratified extensions) as it contains WSI (Window System Integration). WSI is implemented using extensions so it is missing in core only specification. All the remaining versions of Vulkan specification are available at Khronos Vulkan Registry including html versions.
• Khronos Vulkan Tutorial - using C Vulkan API and GLFW
• Website of vulkan.org, especially Key resources section and Vulkan Tutorials.
• Vulkan tutorial on root.cz - Czech language only, using vulkan.hpp, source code on github.