Learning the fundamentals of Vulkan
This section will cover the basics of Vulkan. Here we will discuss the following:
- Vulkan's execution model
- Vulkan's queue
- The object model
- Object life-time and command syntax
- Error checking and validation
Vulkan's execution model
A Vulkan-capable system is able to query the system and expose the number of physical devices available on it. Each of the physical devices advertises one or more queues. These queues are categorized into different families, where each family has very specific functionalities. For example, these functionalities could include graphics, compute, data transfer, and sparse memory management. Each member of the queue family may contain one or more similar queues, making them compatible with each ...
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