Vulkan
From wikipedia:Vulkan (API):
- Vulkan, initially referred to as "glNext", is a low-overhead, cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API.
Learn more at Khronos.
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Installation
To run a Vulkan application, you will need to install the vulkan-icd-loader package, as well as the Vulkan drivers for your graphics card(s):
- Intel: vulkan-intel
- NVIDIA: nvidia
- AMD: amdgpu-pro-vulkan-driverAUR
The other drivers are not packaged yet, so you will have to install them manually:
- PowerVR: https://imgtec.com/vulkan
- Adreno: https://developer.qualcomm.com/software/adreno-gpu-sdk/gpu
To develop a Vulkan application, you will also need the vulkan-headers, and you will probably want the vulkan-validation-layers.
Once this is done, it would really be appreciated if you would share the specs of your GPU/driver combination to vulkan.gpuinfo.org by running vulkan-caps-viewerAUR. Thank you!
Troubleshooting
Error - vulkan: No DRI3 support
If you get the message above, make sure to create the following file with the given content and restart your X. This should not be necessary on Wayland.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "DRI" "3" EndSection
Nvidia - vulkan is not working and can not initialize
Check if you have vulkan-intel installed, it may prevent Nvidia's vulkan driver from being detected.