{"id":2668,"date":"2021-01-13T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:56:19","slug":"new-vulkan-sdks-with-enhanced-developer-support-for-apple-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-sdks-with-enhanced-developer-support-for-apple-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vulkan SDKs with enhanced developer support for Apple platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

LunarG releases new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.162.\u00a0 New SDKs provide advanced developer support for Apple platforms and a new 1.0 version of Synchronization Validation that moves beyond alpha. Read on for information about the new features and updates.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Overview of new features in Vulkan SDK 1.2.162.1<\/h2>\n

macOS SDK<\/h3>\n

The new macOS SDK provides support for the following new features and updates:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Synchronization Validation is now at release “1.0,” meaning it is no longer considered an “alpha” release. See the Synchronization Validation documentation<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. The devsim layer has been ported to the macOS SDK. See the devsim documentation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. The Vulkan Configurator has been updated to expose devsim JSON configuration files to be used with the portability subset extension.<\/li>\n
  4. The validation layers provide validation for the VK_KHR_portability_subset extension.<\/li>\n
  5. Universal binaries that support Apple Silicon are now included with the macOS SDK for the Vulkan Loader, Validation Layers, and all command-line tools and libraries.<\/li>\n
  6. Vulkan Info can now be built and run on iOS devices. See the vulkaninfo<\/a><\/strong> documentation for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Windows and Linux SDKs<\/h3>\n

    The new Windows and Linux SDKs provide support for the following new features and updates:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Synchronization Validation is now at release “1.0,” meaning it is no longer considered an “alpha” release. See the Synchronization Validation documentation<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. The Vulkan Configurator has been updated to expose devsim JSON configuration files to be used with the portability subset extension.<\/li>\n
    3. The validation layers provide validation for the VK_KHR_portability_subset extension.<\/li>\n
    4. GFXReconstruct has been updated to fix a replay issue that may result in a crash after a vkAllocateDescriptorSets failure with VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_POOL_MEMORY.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      For additional detail, please read the Release Notes for Linux<\/a>,\u00a0Release Notes for Windows<\/a>, or\u00a0Release Notes for macOS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

      To access the new Vulkan SDKs, go to the Vulkan SDK download site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

      For More Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

      LunarG software engineering experts create innovative products and services for open source and commercial customers using leading-edge 3D graphics and compute technologies, including Vulkan, SPIR-V, OpenXR, and OpenGL. We have strengths in performance analysis and tuning, runtime and tools development, shader optimizations, driver development, and porting engines and applications to Vulkan.<\/p>\n

      For more information about\u00a0LunarG, please check out our LunarG.com website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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