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Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions.
Beyond the usual assortment of different specification fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.317 is notable for several new extensions including VK_KHR_maintenance9, VK_KHR_present_id2, VK_KHR_present_wait2, VK_KHR_unified_image_layouts, VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9, VK_ARM_tensors, and VK_EXT_shader_float8. This 8-bit FP support with VK_EXT_shader_float8 was added with an emphasis on opening up the Vulkan API to more machine learning software / AI. This will hopefully clear up at least some of the Vulkan synchronization complexities that have made some aspects of this API difficult by removing image layouts.
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