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Hlsl projects on GitHub
High-level shading language for writing GPU shaders.
As of , the most-starred Hlsl projects on GitHub are 3d-game-shaders-for-beginners (20K stars), Magpie (15.8K stars) and Vulkan (12.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Hlsl repositories with 59K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Magpie, with +36 stars in a day.
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Magpie
Blinue/Magpie · ★ 15.8KMagpie is a lightweight window upscaler for Windows that lets you apply scaling algorithms and filters (like Anime4K or FSR) to any window, including games, to sharpen or upscale its image.
+33d-game-shaders-for-beginners
lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners · ★ 20KA step-by-step guide to implementing 3D game shading techniques such as SSAO, depth of field, bloom, normal mapping, fog, and screen space reflection/refraction for your own 3D game.
+2Vulkan
SaschaWillems/Vulkan · ★ 12.2KA comprehensive collection of open source C++ examples for Vulkan, the low-level graphics and compute API from Khronos, covering everything from a basic triangle to PBR, deferred rendering and hardware ray tracing.
+21-Click-DLSS5
reiluisii/1-Click-DLSS5 · ★ 3121-Click DLSS 5 is an open-source Windows GUI tool that injects NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering (DLSS-NR, Ray Reconstruction, and synthetic DLAA) into almost any PC game, even titles that never shipped with DLSS support.
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5 projects · by stars
- 20K
#1 · lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
A step-by-step guide to implementing 3D game shading techniques such as SSAO, depth of field, bloom, normal mapping, fog, and screen space reflection/refraction for your own 3D game.
- 15.8K
#2 · Blinue/Magpie
Magpie
Magpie is a lightweight window upscaler for Windows that lets you apply scaling algorithms and filters (like Anime4K or FSR) to any window, including games, to sharpen or upscale its image.
- 12.2K
#3 · SaschaWillems/VulkanVulkan
A comprehensive collection of open source C++ examples for Vulkan, the low-level graphics and compute API from Khronos, covering everything from a basic triangle to PBR, deferred rendering and hardware ray tracing.
- 4

Whisper
10.7KConst-me/Whisper · C++A Windows port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition model that runs inference on the GPU using DirectCompute instead of CUDA, delivering much faster transcription than the official PyTorch implementation.
- 5

1-Click-DLSS5
312reiluisii/1-Click-DLSS5 · HLSL1-Click DLSS 5 is an open-source Windows GUI tool that injects NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering (DLSS-NR, Ray Reconstruction, and synthetic DLAA) into almost any PC game, even titles that never shipped with DLSS support.
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