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Now Supports Older GPUs, New Extensions

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Now Supports Older GPUs, New Extensions

NVK also received better support for DXVK and support for multiple
Vulkan extension.
Marius Nestor by [40]Marius Nestor[41]June 26, 2023June 26, 2023[42]0

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Collabora informs 9to5Linux today about the latest features that landed
in NVK, Collabora’s open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware that
aims to be part of the [46]Mesa graphics stack.

Development on [47]NVK kicked off almost nine months ago and it looks
like the open-source [48]NVIDIA Vulkan driver is getting more mature
and in a pretty decent state for Linux gaming.

Since then, NVK gained support for older, pre-Turing NVIDIA graphics
cards from the Maxwell and Kepler series, support for geometry,
tessellation, and transform feedback to support modern video games, as
well as better support for the [49]DXVK Vulkan-based implementation of
D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine.
“Echo has been playing around with NVK+DXVK a bit and has succeeded in
getting some games playing,” says Collabora’s Faith Ekstrand in a
[50]blog post. “It’s still early days and requires some hacks. However,
there are a few titles working and I was able to demo Hollow Knight and
F1 2017 at the Collabora meet-up in May.”

NVK also received support for more Vulkan extensions, including
VK_KHR_draw_indirect_count and VK_KHR_sampler_ycbcr_conversion, and it
also looks like the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan drive will soon support
newer Vulkan specifications up to version 1.3.
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NVK is not yet considered to be a conformant Vulkan implementation as
it needs to pass the Vulkan conformance test suite, but Collabora is
working hard to fix the remaining failures. In addition, they’ve been
working on some performance improvements to make NVK more stable and
reliable for proper gaming.

For now, Collaboara doesn’t have a time frame for when NVK will be
upstreamed into the Mesa graphics stack, but they said that it will be
upstreamed along with the new kernel API, which is required in order to
implement Vulkan correctly in various scenarios.

The new kernel API will be based on userspace-controlled VM bindings
and DRM sync objects, and it’s required to enable NVK to correctly
handle depth and stencil buffers, as well as MSAA for pre-Turing NVIDIA
hardware. Soon, it will also receive the ability to control page tables
from userspace and proper timeline semaphore support.

Collabora’s Linux 3D graphics developer Faith Ekstrand also revealed
the fact that she’s been working lately on a new back-end compiler for
NVIDIA hardware written in Rust, called NAK (Nvidia Awesome Kompiler),
as a replacement for nv50 on modern GPUs.
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“Overall, I’ve been very happy with Rust as a language for back-end
compiler development. It’s way more fun writing Rust code than C or
C++,” said Ekstrand. “Currently, I’m only targeting Turing GPUs. It
will be expanded to more hardware eventually.”

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