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Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions


Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute.

VK_ARM_pipeline_opacity_micromap was added by Arm engineers as an extension to VK_EXT_opacity_micromap with a new flag for indicating that a pipeline will not be used with an acceleration structure referencing an opacity micromap. Lastly is VK_KHR_maintenance8 with a collection of new features worked on by Valve, LunarG, ARM, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Igalia, Intel, and Nintendo engineers. - Support Offset (as an alternative to ConstOffset) image operand in texture sampling and fetch operations

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