The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default. Once approved and merged into Mesa, this should then ship with the Mesa 24.1 release due out hopefully at the start of May.
NVK is also now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 driver on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs. From developer Faith Ekstrand in the Collabora blog post, "Not only have we jumped forward three Vulkan versions, but the new test runs were done with the GSP firmware enabled and includes Ampere and Ada GPUs. Also, unlike the initial 1.0 run, there are no hacks this time. Every test we passed in those conformance test runs also passes on upstream Mesa".
Ekstrand also mentioned lots of work went into ensuring DXVK (part of Proton for D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 to Vulkan) would run completely out of the box with Mesa, and work continues on D3D12 to Vulkan work via VKD3D-Proton.
Additionally, the OpenGL support, they're still expecting Zink + NVK to be the plan, as noted in our previous article. Because it's much more performant than the old original nouveau OpenGL driver and should keep improving too on features, performance and stability.
So in later distribution releases, you should hopefully get access to it out of the box with no configuration required if you have an NVIDIA GPU that's currently supported.
What a great time for open source. Fantastic work by all involved in this project.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Never underestimate how awesome Faith is! I'm excited to see what major issue she'll tackle next after nvk is done and left to others to maintain.
Based on her latest post on the matter Maxwell support and performance.
pleasereadthemanual Feb 29
Never underestimate how awesome Faith is! I'm excited to see what major issue she'll tackle next after nvk is done and left to others to maintain.
Based on her latest post on the matter Maxwell support and performance.
I mean, that'd be great but at her speed it'll take, what, 1 month? :P
I'm thinking more long term, like overhaul the kernel graphics subsystem so all the problems are magically gone, that sort of scale.
Mohandevir Feb 29
I remember having to run games through Zink just to be able to do that on AMD…
This sentence sounds horrible in English, sorry
hardpenguin Feb 29
(at least on Linux, haha).
Last edited by hardpenguin on 29 February 2024 at 4:09 pm UTC
Maxwell support and performance.
I'm sorry but where does she say that she's working on Maxwell support? The blog you linked doesn't mention that
Not ready for prime time. NVK still needs a logo!You're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be!
Oh, a classic! I do actually prefer the TV series over the movie.Not ready for prime time. NVK still needs a logo!You're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be!
Never actually seen the movie. When it came out, I got the impression from what was said about it that it was probably not bad but that I would prefer the TV series (and the books), so I was never in a hurry to get around to it. I had this feeling that it would feel too . . . American, for my taste.Oh, a classic! I do actually prefer the TV series over the movie.Not ready for prime time. NVK still needs a logo!You're so clever, you tell us what colour it should be!
Not that there isn't plenty of good American media . . . well, not much lately, but there used to be . . . but whenever they take something British and adapt it, um.
Rocking an EVGA 2080 right now, and if NVK gets merged, I won't be so rushed to get a different GPU.
As much as this is absolutely, positively my final NVIDIA card*, I want to be able to keep this until it becomes too weak for my use case or it suffers a catastrophic failure.
Because my 2080 is perfectly fine for what I use it for, I've just been growing really tired of NVIDIA's annoying blob driver.
*except in the very slim chance NVIDIA pulls a total 180, embracing open-source drivers and not charging scalper pricing for their cards. But that chance is super slim right now, they seem way more interested in selling cards en masse to AI farms.
Luke_Nukem Mar 1
Nevertheless, hurrah for NVK and Faith. The experience when I tested it a few weeks ago was actually very good and I could run quite a few games. However I do wonder how ray tracing will shape up...
I really really do not understand the nvidia hate. It's frankly fucking ridiculous at times.
A little bit, yeah. My GPU's hardware is excellent, and I'd probably be able to run it for several more years with NVK.
But I've had a lot of issues with the proprietary drivers recently.
When the time comes to buy a new graphics card, though, it's going to be AMD or Intel Arc.
NVIDIA's pre-scalped prices are too expensive for me.
Never underestimate how awesome Faith is! I'm excited to see what major issue she'll tackle next after nvk is done and left to others to maintain.
Based on her latest post on the matter Maxwell support and performance.
I mean, that'd be great but at her speed it'll take, what, 1 month? :P
I'm thinking more long term, like overhaul the kernel graphics subsystem so all the problems are magically gone, that sort of scale.
You're completely right.
I tried to include the right link, but ehm sorry.
This is what I meant
I remember having to run games through Zink just to be able to do that on AMD…
I thought with AMD you could already do it for radeonsi:
AMD_TEX_ANISO=16For Vulkan it's:
RADV_TEX_ANISO=16Example:
AMD_TEX_ANISO=16 glxgears
radeonsi: Forcing anisotropy filter to 16x
...Last edited by Shmerl on 1 March 2024 at 5:18 pm UTC
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