vkpeak

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#43 of 73

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6.3

The facts below are what the maker publishes about vkpeak, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From vkpeak's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
MIT-licensed open-source software	Free	Synthetic Vulkan device benchmarking

Each one read from vkpeak's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Benchmark caveat: The README says it measures peak metrics achievable using vector operations and does not represent a real-world use case.checked 11 Oct 2026
Build: The project can be built from source with CMake after cloning it with its submodules.checked 11 Oct 2026
CLI or automation: Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Dependency: The README credits Tencent's ncnn as other open-source code used by the project.checked 11 Oct 2026
Driver troubleshooting: The README advises upgrading the GPU driver if a crash or error occurs.checked 11 Oct 2026
GPU support: The README offers executables for Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Apple GPUs.checked 11 Oct 2026
License: The repository identifies its license as MIT.checked 11 Oct 2026
Operating systems: Windows; Linux; macOSchecked 23 Sep 2026
Purpose: vkpeak is a synthetic benchmarking tool that profiles Vulkan devices to measure peak capabilities.checked 11 Oct 2026
Scenario selection: Users can run all scenarios by default or select one or a comma-separated list of scenarios.checked 11 Oct 2026
Third-party code: The project lists Tencent's ncnn as other open-source code used.checked 11 Oct 2026
Workload areas: floating-point arithmetic; integer arithmetic; matrix operations; memory-copy bandwidthchecked 23 Sep 2026

Benchmark scenarios: Scenarios include scalar and vector tests for several data types, matrix and dot-product tests, and host/device copy tests.checked 11 Oct 2026
Device selection: The optional device ID defaults to 0, which selects the default Vulkan device.checked 11 Oct 2026
Linux compatibility: The January 2026 release says its Linux package supports glibc 2.17 and later, including Debian 8+, Ubuntu 13.10+, Fedora 19+, and RHEL 7+.checked 11 Oct 2026
macOS build: The README documents an option to link the static MoltenVK library on macOS.checked 11 Oct 2026