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, pipeline and queries

6. Command submission
7. Compute shader and pipeline
8. Time queries

Rendering basics

9. Graphics pipeline
10. Render Pass
11. Hello Triangle

Rendering to window

12. Native window
13. VulkanWindow

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.