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Tencent/ncnn

ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#android #arm-neon #artificial-intelligence #caffe #darknet #deep-learning

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-30
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,243 open

23,808

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Forks: 4,502
Commits: 3,907 commits
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lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners

🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-graphics #game-development #gamedev #glsl #glsl-shader

Updated: 2023-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 18 open

19,943

stars

Forks: 1,485
Commits: 1 commit
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Website GitHub

RPCS3/rpcs3

PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#assembly-language #c #cpp #emulation #emulator #llvm

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,076 open

19,873

stars

Forks: 2,454
Commits: 20,058 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bkaradzic/bgfx

Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#d3d11 #d3d12 #directx #directx-11 #directx-12 #engine

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-04
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 284 open

17,549

stars

Forks: 2,148
Commits: 9,546 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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Website GitHub

alibaba/MNN

MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Ktor Streamlit Cargo CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#arm #convolution #deep-learning #embedded-devices #llm #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-17
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 49 open

16,036

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Forks: 2,433
Commits: 3,096 commits
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tracel-ai/burn

Burn is a next generation tensor library and Deep Learning Framework that doesn't compromise on flexibility, efficiency and portability.

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#autodiff #cross-platform #cuda #deep-learning #kernel-fusion #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 305 open

15,899

stars

Forks: 1,041
Commits: 3,233 commits
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apache/tvm

Open Machine Learning Compiler Framework

AI dev

Stack

Python Android pytest Tornado CMake Gradle Maven

GitHub topics

#compiler #deep-learning #gpu #javascript #machine-learning #metal

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 244 open

13,720

stars

Forks: 3,964
Commits: 14,284 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#appimage #emulator #enhancements #fast #hardware-renderers #jit-compiler

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

10,841

stars

Forks: 975
Commits: 12,713 commits
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cocos/cocos-engine

Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#3d #cocos #cocoscreator #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,034 open

9,855

stars

Forks: 2,140
Commits: 22,341 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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flightlessmango/MangoHud

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #hud #linux #monitoring #opengl #vulkan

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 332 open

9,001

stars

Forks: 422
Commits: 2,592 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

BoomingTech/Piccolo

Piccolo (formerly Pilot) – mini game engine for games104

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #game-development #game-engine #imgui #physics

Updated: 2024-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

6,731

stars

Forks: 1,975
Commits: 204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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lemonade-sdk/lemonade

Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express React Tauri Cargo CMake npm

GitHub topics

#ai #amd #genai #gpu #llama #llm

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-30
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 548 open

5,632

stars

Forks: 489
Commits: 1,575 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Website GitHub

crosire/reshade

A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#compiler #d3d11 #d3d12 #d3d9 #glsl #hlsl

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-09-15
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

5,595

stars

Forks: 729
Commits: 5,813 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gameplay3d/gameplay

Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #engine #open-source #vulkan

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

4,933

stars

Forks: 1,310
Commits: 4,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DiligentGraphics/DiligentEngine

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics library and rendering framework

Stack

Batchfile CMake

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #d3d11 #d3d12 #directx #directx11 #directx12

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-21
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 24 open

4,467

stars

Forks: 391
Commits: 2,192 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

iree-org/iree

A retargetable MLIR-based machine learning compiler and runtime toolkit.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#compiler #cuda #jax #machine-learning #mlir #onnx

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-18
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,690 open

3,923

stars

Forks: 1,004
Commits: 20,418 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Celtoys/Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #cpu #cuda #d3d11 #d3d12 #gpu

Updated: 2024-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

3,316

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 973 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Inori/GPCS4

A work-in-progress PlayStation 4 emulator.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#emulator #gcn #graphics #ps4 #vulkan

Updated: 2023-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-20
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

2,029

stars

Forks: 145
Commits: 1,554 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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axmolengine/axmol

Open-source C++ game engine with Lua for 2D and 3D games across mobile, desktop, WebAssembly, and Xbox (UWP).

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #axmol #cocos2d-x #cpp23 #cppwinrt

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

1,481

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 5,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gscept/nebula

Nebula is an open-source and free-to-use modern C++ game engine.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#classless-api #data-oriented-architecture #game-engine #game-engine-3d #linux #multithreading

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 35 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 3,722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ddnet/ddnet

DDraceNetwork, a free cooperative platformer game

Stack

C++ Android Warp Cargo CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d-game #ddnet #game #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,032 open

825

stars

Forks: 660
Commits: 25,616 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

arcships/light-ocr

Fast, offline OCR for Node.js & C++. PP-OCRv6 with Core ML / WebGPU hardware acceleration — recognize text in images with confidence scores & coordinates. npm: @arcships/light-ocr

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express CMake npm

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #computer-vision #coreml #cpp17 #d3d12 #image-processing

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-07-14
History: 3 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

619

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

fubark/cosmic

A platform for computing and creating applications.

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #graphics #opengl #ui #vulkan #wasm

Updated: 2023-03-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

361

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 1,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

attackgoat/vk-graph

High-performance Vulkan driver with automated resource management and execution

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-game-engine #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #rust

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-04
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 4 open

342

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SysRay/psOff_public

Playstation 4 Emulator for Windows

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#emulation #playstation-4 #ps4 #vulkan

Updated: 2024-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-02-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

292

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 1,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

bruhmoment21/UniversalHookX

Universal graphical hook for Windows apps.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#directx #graphics #hook #hooking #imgui #opengl

Updated: 2024-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

278

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 58 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

AdvDebug/Brovan

Run Windows and Linux programs on Windows, Linux and Android. A user-mode NT and Linux kernel emulator with WHP/KVM acceleration.

Stack

C# Android Avalonia CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#antivirus #binary-analysis #csharp #cybersecurity #debugger #debugging

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-05-15
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1 open

165

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 339 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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GitHub

Hekbas/Luth

Data-oriented C++20 game engine with a fiber-based job system and bindless Vulkan 1.3 renderer.

Stack

C++ CMake Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cpp20 #data-oriented-design #entity-component-system #game-engine #job-system #pbr

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

164

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 1,563 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

andrewrk/zig-vulkan-triangle

simple triangle displayed using vulkan, xcb, and zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#vulkan #xcb #zig

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

161

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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GitHub

ashpil/moonshine

A spectral path tracer built with Zig + Vulkan

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#raytracing #vulkan #zig

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-06-21
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

141

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 1,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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