Introduction to Vulkan | Algorithms for Real-Time Rendering Lecture, Summer Term 2020
This lecture gives an overview of the most important aspects and concepts of Khronos' low-level graphics API. The following topics are discussed: the swap chain, physical device selection, image layout transitions, memory management, commands, queues, pipeline stages, and there is a big part about synchronization, including execution dependencies, memory dependencies, and synchronization primitives: fences, semaphores, events, pipeline barriers, subpass dependencies.
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Chapter 1: Explicit and Low-Level
02:52 Case Example: Input Lag
06:20 Presenting images/the swap chain
15:26 Physical Device Selection
17:35 Image Layout Transitions
19:56 Memory Management
22:28 Chapter 2: Commands and their Synchronization
24:19 Queues and Command Submission
27:45 Pipeline Stages of a Command
31:01 Synchronization primitives
31:37 Pipeline barriers
38:20 Memory Availability and Visibility, Pipeline Memory Barriers
43:29 Render Pass, Sub-pass Dependencies
46:28 Events
47:43 Semaphores
49:51 Fences
50:56 Chapter 3: Vukan Ecosystem