{"id":2699,"date":"2021-03-01T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:55:51","slug":"new-vulkan-sdks-support-synchronization2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/new-vulkan-sdks-support-synchronization2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vulkan SDKs Support VK_KHR_synchronization2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today LunarG releases new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.170. These SDKs include support for Vulkan Synchronization2 and several other new extensions. The prior SDK supported Vulkan API revision 1.2.162.\u00a0 Read on for information about the new extensions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"36:1-36:43\">Overview of new extensions in Vulkan SDK 1.2.170.0<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khronos.org\/registry\/vulkan\/specs\/1.2-extensions\/html\/chap50.html#VK_KHR_synchronization2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VK_KHR_synchronization2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extension brings extensive improvements to Vulkan queue submission, events, and pipeline barriers resulting in significant usability enhancements for developers. Read more about <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/khr.io\/w2\">Synchronization2 in a Khronos blog published today<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of the new extensions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VK_KHR_synchronization2<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_workgroup_memory_explicit_layout<\/li>\n<li>VK_KHR_zero_initialize_workgroup_memory<\/li>\n<li>VK_NV_acquire_winrt_display<\/li>\n<li>VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type<\/li>\n<li>A new layer, called VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_synchronization2 has been included in this SDK. It is designed to be a transparent helper that provides an extension implementation if your device\u2019s driver doesn\u2019t have one yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download a copy of the SDK at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/sdk\/home\">Vulkan SDK Download site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For additional detail, please read the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.170.0\/linux\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Linux<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.170.0\/windows\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for Windows<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vulkan.lunarg.com\/doc\/sdk\/1.2.170.0\/mac\/release_notes.html\">Release Notes for macOS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"30:1-30:59\">Looking for the Android build of the Validation Layers?<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-sourcepos=\"31:1-31:168\">With each SDK release, the Android Validation Layer binaries are released in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/KhronosGroup\/Vulkan-ValidationLayers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Validation Layers repository<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>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<p>For more information about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunarg.com\/\">LunarG, please check out our <strong>LunarG.com website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today LunarG releases new Windows, Linux, and macOS SDKs for Vulkan header 1.2.170. These SDKs include support for Vulkan Synchronization2 and several other new extensions. 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