Vulkan 1.4 now mandates a number of previously optional extensions and features. The minimum hardware limits have also been increased for Vulkan 1.4.
Today's press release sums up the Vulkan 1.4 highlights as:
- Streaming Transfers: Vulkan 1.4 imposes new implementation requirements to ensure portable, cross-platform applications can stream large quantities of data to a device while simultaneously rendering at full performance.
- Previously optional extensions and features critical to emerging high-performance applications are now mandatory in Vulkan 1.4, ensuring their reliable availability across multiple platforms. These include push descriptors, dynamic rendering local reads, and scalar block layouts.
- Maintenance extensions up to and including VK_KHR_maintenance6 are now part of the core Vulkan 1.4 specification.
- 8K rendering with up to eight separate render targets is now guaranteed to be supported, along with several other limit increases.
More details on today's Vulkan 1.4 specification release via Khronos.org .
Now to see how quickly the Mesa merge requests come for landing Vulkan 1.4 in the likes of Radeon RADV and Intel ANV drivers...