Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support

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This Vulkan 1.3 support for NVK is thus one of the many new features to find in the Mesa 24.1 release due out in Q2. This comes following all of the necessary extensions being wired up and NVK continuing to mature at a rather brisk pace.

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its coming along quicker than i expected.

at this pace when can we expect to be using the open driver instead of the closed one?

Now, if you want. There will probably always be tradeoffs between the two drivers so I doubt this will ever match Nvidia's across the board, just have to pick your poisons.

I tried it recently and it didn't work, didn't feel like entering the nvidia driver wont work rabbit hole. Did you use it? What are the tradeoffs right now?

I haven't used it because most games don't work or have as good of performance. Benefits in short term will be things like in-tree kernel module, better working relationship and bug fixes with open projects like KDE/Gnome and maybe things like Gamescope or VR.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The NVK driver within Mesa for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for the Vulkan API that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now capable of advertising Vulkan 1.3 API support.

Faith Ekstrand merged the change overnight so that Vulkan 1.3 is now advertised by NVK.

This Vulkan 1.3 support for NVK is thus one of the many new features to find in the Mesa 24.1 release due out in Q2.

This comes following all of the necessary extensions being wired up and NVK continuing to mature at a rather brisk pace.

Though as it depends on the Nouveau kernel driver, your mileage may vary particularly with RTX 20 series and newer really needing the NVIDIA GSP firmware support found in Linux 6.7 but is still a work-in-progress.

In any event NVK now joins the likes of Intel ANV, Radeon RADV, Lavapipe, TURNIP, and Venus with Vulkan 1.3 support inside Mesa.

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