As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.
  • yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa…

    In case anyone else needs a reminder like I did.

  • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Incredible how quick this progressed

    I really hope they’ll be able to add support for older cards one day, although I very much doubt it

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I don’t think that’s ever going to be in the plan, because the issue with Nouveau was the older cards, or more specifically, that the code was based on older architecture.

      NVK was able to utilize newer code from the newer RTX cards to get a more performant base to build upon (or at least, that’s my understanding). Even if they wanted to, I don’t think they can actually go back.

      • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        The issue actually is them being unable to control the older cards power state due to Nvidia being dicks (as always). That’s the only thing stopping them because it’s a shitload of work to reverse engineer Nvidia’s fuckery (Nvidia REALLY put a lot of effort into it to make it very hard to actually do)

        I hate Nvidia, sorry for the rant

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Rant is deserved, honestly. It’s awesome what the NVK devs have done in spite of Nvidia

      • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Maxwell is also used in 900 series cards that are still fairly powerful (like the 980 ti).

      • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I missed that, thank you for sharing

        I’m on Pascal myself, I’m just gonna continue to pray until I feel the need to purchase a new GPU