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Sascha Willems

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Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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Joined November 06, 2022
Website:
https://www.saschawillems.de
Location:
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github:
https://github.com/SaschaWillems

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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 14, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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With the increasing amount of data and requests, performance has become a real issue for my @vulkan@fosstodon.org #Vulkan Hardware database at https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/.

So I just released a substantial update to it, that reworked some of the slower and often used queries like extension coverage listings (which now is mostly instant). With this change, performance should improve a lot and with that also site availability.

You can read up on the details at https://www.saschawillems.de/blog/2026/03/13/improving-performance-of-the-vulkan-hardware-database/

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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 27, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place
@ocornut No need to be sorry! I'm super grateful for all the the work you're doing with Dear ImGui!
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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 27, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place
@ocornut Thanks for bringing this up. And yes, we'll have these fixed.
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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 19, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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If you wanna know if #Vulkan @vulkan@fosstodon.org is the right graphics api for hobby developers (tl;dr: yes), you might find an answer in my #Vulkanised 2026 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EshkHyYxb3A

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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 12, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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Looking for a basic @vulkan@fosstodon.org #Vulkan descriptor heap example? I've got you covered: https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/examples/descriptorheap/descriptorheap.cpp

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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 01, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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@vulkan@fosstodon.org #Vulkan Hardware Capability viewer 4.11 released. This version adds support for several new extensions, incl. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/download.php

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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 03, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

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Replying to @swetland@chaos.social
@swetland@chaos.social @vulkan@fosstodon.org On desktop it's supported pretty much everywhere, even for older devices. Android, as so often, lacks behind and you might require a fall back to extensions instead.
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Sascha Willems @sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 03, 2026
Sascha Willems
@sascha@mastodon.gamedev.place

Software development team lead in the automotive area at day, open source developer and Khronos contributor by night. Mostly Vulkan related things. Maintainer of the GPU hardware databases at http://gpuinfo.org

mastodon.gamedev.place

My "How to Vulkan in 2026" @vulkan@fosstodon.org #Vulkan guide is now publicly available at https://www.howtovulkan.com/

I still consider it a preview, though I'm mostly happy with it and only plan on changing minor things and incorporating some feedback.

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