nvpro-samples

Ray tracing examples and tutorials using VK_KHR_ray_tracing

A beginner-friendly Vulkan path tracing tutorial in under 300 lines of C++.

Ray tracing glTF scene with Vulkan

OpenGL sample for shader-based occlusion culling

shared source code and resources needed for the samples to run

Advanced viewer implementing several rendering methods for 3D gaussians using Vulkan API

This OpenGL/Vulkan sample illustrates the use of "mesh shaders" for rendering CAD models.

Set of advanced samples for the NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine.

Vulkan ray tracing glTF 2.0 renderer — RTX path tracer with PBR materials, AI denoising (DLSS, OptiX), and scene editing. NVIDIA open-source sample.

Demonstrates seven different techniques for order-independent transparency in Vulkan.

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A minimal, self-contained example demonstrating best practices for Vulkan development in a single file—no frameworks required.

Collection of Vulkan samples

optimized screen-space ambient occlusion, cache-aware hbao

Vulkan video samples

continuous level of detail mesh library

Sample for cluster-based continuous level of detail rasterization or ray tracing

Simple vulkan rendering example.

OpenGL sample on various rendering approaches for typical CAD scenes

OpenGL and Vulkan comparison on rendering a CAD scene using various techniques

Vulkan ray tracing examples and tutorials using VK_NV_ray_tracing

A comprehensive collection of modular libraries for high-performance graphics development

Display an image created by Vulkan compute shader, with OpenGL

OpenGL sample for NV_command_list

Silhouette and toon shading post-processing with Vulkan

Denoising a Vulkan ray traced image using OptiX denoiser

NVIDIA Texture Tools samples for compression, image processing, and decompression.

This sample showcases rasterizing and ray tracing displaced NVIDIA Micro-Mesh assets in Vulkan with and without the VK_NV_displacement_micromap extension.

Vulkan sample rendering 3D with 'worker-threads'

Sample that uses VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure to animate meshes for ray tracing

Sample showcasing lifetime management and resource transfers in Vulkan

GPU classifies how to render millions of particles

Vulkan sample showing a high quality super-sampled rendering

A shader-driven livecoding tool using Vulkan and the Slang shading language.

Customizable compute shader for fast cache-aware mipmap generation

Vulkan sample on VK_EXT_device_generated_commands and NV extension