VK driver for the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Videocore IV)
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updated Apr 22, 2021
RPi-VK-Driver is a low level GPU driver for the Broadcom Videocore IV GPU that implements a subset of the Vulkan (registered trademark of The Khronos Group) standard. The implementation is not conformant to the standard (therefore it cannot be called a Vulkan driver, officially) but tries to follow it as closely as the hardware allows for it.
Compared to the available OpenGL drivers it offers superb speed including precise and predictable memory management and multi-threaded command submission. It also offers a wider feature set such as MSAA support, low level assembly shaders and performance counters.
On the other hand it currently does not support GLSL shaders.
Please follow the instructions in the Build.md file. https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/blob/master/BUILD.md
For further information please take a look at the Wiki section: https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/wiki
The driver currently supports the following Raspberry Pi models:
(top 24 of 26)
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367 followers · starred Jun 2020
202 followers · starred Nov 2022
1,043 followers · starred Feb 2026
VK driver for the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Videocore IV)
C++
1,242
491 commits
updated Apr 22, 2021
RPi-VK-Driver is a low level GPU driver for the Broadcom Videocore IV GPU that implements a subset of the Vulkan (registered trademark of The Khronos Group) standard. The implementation is not conformant to the standard (therefore it cannot be called a Vulkan driver, officially) but tries to follow it as closely as the hardware allows for it.
Compared to the available OpenGL drivers it offers superb speed including precise and predictable memory management and multi-threaded command submission. It also offers a wider feature set such as MSAA support, low level assembly shaders and performance counters.
On the other hand it currently does not support GLSL shaders.
Please follow the instructions in the Build.md file. https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/blob/master/BUILD.md
For further information please take a look at the Wiki section: https://github.com/Yours3lf/rpi-vk-driver/wiki
The driver currently supports the following Raspberry Pi models:
(top 24 of 26)
32 followers · starred Jul 2020
367 followers · starred Jun 2020
202 followers · starred Nov 2022
1,043 followers · starred Feb 2026