What’s Vulkan | How to Enable Vulkan in Blender?

What’s Vulkan? and how to enable Vulkan in Blender tutorial.

Vulkan is a next generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in PCs, consoles, mobile phones and embedded platforms.

Vulkan backend is part of the gpu module. It enables drawing Blenders UI using Vulkan. It doesn’t (and isn’t planned or viable to) use Vulkan for running Cycles.

The advantage of Vulkan is its faster and more fluid interface performance. For example, it allows for faster scene movement and faster loading times for larger scenes. Vulkan offers no advantage in rendering.

👉Vulkan: https://www.vulkan.org/

👉Why Vulkan?: https://code.blender.org/2023/10/vulkan-project-update/

👉Vulkan backend: https://developer.blender.org/docs/features/gpu/vulkan/