As of today, #NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementation for #NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs! Starting with Mesa 25.1, this #opensource driver will be enabled by default on these GPUs: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-enabled-for-maxwell,-pascal,-and-volta-gpus.html

Three demos. One stand. From end-to-end HDR and a brand-new SoC running #PanVK to #NVK and WebGPU out of the box — discover how Collabora pushed #opensource graphics forward at Embedded World 2025: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/breakthroughs-open-source-graphics-embedded-world-2025.html

Updates on the progress of NVIDIA support on Haiku so far:
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520/79

• GPU acceleration working on the RTX A2000 and T400 GPUs
• Multi-GPU support
• OpenGL games now working after updating the Zink port

The initial nova-core driver stub was merged to #Linux mainline for #LinuxKernel 6.15[1].

#Nova is going to be a #kernel driver for #Nvidia's modern GPUs written in #Rustlang. It is the successor of the #Nouveau kernel driver and serve as base for drivers like #NVK.

The core driver stub is not really useful for anything yet. But that should change soon – and I guess will be the turning point that'll sell #Rust for Linux to the world.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/54e6baf123fde089cfa9f609b0b39b40abe41e94 and https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/b28786b190d1ae2df5e6a5181ad78c6f226ea3e1

Haiku NVIDIA https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-gpu-driver/16520 #NVK #OpenSource @haiku

@gfxstrand Just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2sF_i1j67w and thought of your #nvk work.

¡Me la pone dura #Mesa3D! Y mira que "gracias" a #NVIDIA no lo uso... por ahora, je je. En #ArchLinux ya se puede probar #NVK. El paquete se llama "vulkan-nouveau".

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vulkan-nouveau/

With #Vulkanised 2025 just a few days away, here's a look back at Faith Ekstrand & Iago Toral's great talk, "8 Years of Open Drivers & State of Vulkan in Mesa" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV6w78kth-4 #OpenSource #Vulkan #NVK @vulkan @gfxstrand

Been trying out NVK for the first time today, and the results have been really impressive!

Most of the games I tried ranged from playable to completely indistinguishable from the proprietary drivers.

It feels like it has been barely any time at all since I started hearing about NVK last year, so seeing this much progress in such little time is amazing!

Here is some footage of Project DIVA running via NVK on my 3060Ti at a crisp 60fps:

Keep your eyes peeled for the SteamOS stickers! Open-source NVIDIA drivers now support Vulkan 1.4, Alpakka releases a 1.0 reference design, Steam Link comes to the Raspberry Pi 5, and Proton for your vintage GPU.

Show & Notes: https://linuxgamecast.com/2024/12/steamos-all-the-things/

#Linux Weekly Roundup for December 8th, 2024: Linux 6.12 confirmed as LTS, #GNOME 47.2, #NVIDIA 565, #Nitrux 3.8, #Debian 13's default theme, Linux 6.11 and 4.19 EOL, OBS Studio 31.0, openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1, Qt Creator 15, #AlpineLinux 3.21, #NVK reaches #Vulkan 1.4 conformance, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-8th-2024

Collabora's #NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver for #NVIDIA GPUs Reaches #Vulkan 1.4 Conformance https://9to5linux.com/nvk-open-source-driver-for-nvidia-gpus-reaches-vulkan-1-4-conformance

@collabora #OpenSource #Linux #gaming

El controlador @vulkan de software libre #NVK *ya* es compatible 1.4.

Todavía ni de coña llega al desempeño de su equivalente privativo. Pero, joder, lleva muy buen ritmo.

#NVK, an open-source #Vulkan driver for #NVIDIA hardware, is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Support has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025. https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-now-supports-vulkan-14.html #OpenSource #OpenFirst

Pensé que lo #NVK iba a ser algo que iba ir al fondo del cajón y, parece, promete incluso ser "oficial". Espero que sí. #NVIDIA.

Hey! People who are more knowledgeable about NVidia/NVK; has anyone said anything about Pascal support? I see some talk about Maxwell, which is older, but most of the talk is about GPUs with GSP as I understand it. I have an old Pascal GPU in a computer, which I would like to be able to use with FOSS drivers, but I have no idea where to check for progress. Boosts are appreciated!

#nvk #nouveau #nvidia #linux #rust #mesa review! minecraft 1.21 60fps completely playable on !1520x1440! resolution with rtx3060, and you even can use shaders (with minimal quality tho, but thats better than vanilla), 22-35fps. higher quality is 10-15fps, unplayable. no graphic artifacts on wayland, hyprland. now, you dont need proprietary drivers to play! will test baldurs gate 3 next time

So like, as a #nVidia 3070 Haver and a #Streamer

When should I try using #Nouveau / #nvk

Like, is it ready for prime time/testing at least? And if I did, where would I report bugs/issues?

nVidia's drivers are nice, but honestly not having to deal with them would be nicer.

ICYMI @gfxstrand explains the twists and turns taken to add a unit testing framework to Maxwell compiler back end for #NVK: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/08/15/a-shifty-tail-about-unit-testing/ #NVIDIA @vulkan #OpenGL #OpenSource