The latest Vulkan SDK now ships with Vulkan Memory Allocator (VMA)

Originally posted:

We’re delighted that our Vulkan® Memory Allocator library is now available to install as an optional component in the latest Vulkan SDK (1.3.216.0), making it even easier for developers to discover how handy it is.

The Vulkan Memory Allocator (VMA) SDK provides a simple and easy to integrate API to help you allocate memory for Vulkan buffer and image storage. It’s a generic C++ library which works on any Vulkan-supporting GPU and platform, and has no external dependencies beyond the standard C/C++ library and Vulkan.

VMA is an established and well-respected library, having been integrated into the majority of Vulkan game titles on PC, and is already a part of the official Khronos® Group Vulkan samples. If you’re not already using it, or you’re already a happy user who wants to find out more about it, you can take a look at our dedicated GPUOpen VMA page here:

Want to learn more about VMA and Vulkan memory management, or even Vulkan in general? Take a look at our other GPUOpen content:

Related software

Related news and technical articles

Related videos

Introducing AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
Introducing AMD Render Pipeline Shaders SDK
The brand-new AMD Render Pipeline Shaders (RPS) SDK is a comprehensive and extensible Render Graph framework for graphics applications and engines using explicit APIs (such as DirectX® 12 and Vulkan®). In this video we will take a look at the overview of the design and implementation of the SDK. We will demonstrate how the RPS SDK can help game engines building render graphs easily, managing resource barriers and transient memory efficiently, and more!