Vulkan is primarily a GPU API, but it relatively recently gained a hardware-accelerated video API called Vulkan Video, which is the topic of this post. That it'

Vulkan is primarily a GPU API, but it relatively recently gained a hardware-accelerated video API called Vulkan Video, which is the topic of this post. That it's part of Vulkan is perhaps because video decoders are often bundled with GPUs, though that's not always the case and I believe Vulkan Video can be implemented also where it's separate from the GPU (common on mobile).