NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games

Faith Ekstrand today published a blog post outlining recent efforts around NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware developed namely by the Nouveau development community. Some recent highlights include:..

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Summer-2023-Status

[SpyroRyder]

Where does that "Nvidia Open Gpu Driver" fit in relation to this? I havent seen much news about it in a while and the Nouveau rework is getting a lot of the press here. Which is good but also wasnt the pint to have a amdgpu like situation with nvidia at some point?

[Lbibass]

Where does that "Nvidia Open Gpu Driver" fit in relation to this? I havent seen much news about it in a while and the Nouveau rework is getting a lot of the press here. Which is good but also wasnt the pint to have a amdgpu like situation with nvidia at some point?

This is basically that. Nouveau kernel driver + this is basically amdgpu.

[rmfx]

NAK the Nvidia Awesome Kompiler…
Dev are 14 or what ?

Anyway, I’m curious to see how good it can be compared to the official driver in themes of perf.

[karolherbst]

NAK the Nvidia Awesome Kompiler…
Dev are 14 or what ?

Anyway, I’m curious to see how good it can be compared to the official driver in themes of perf.

:< you are just jealous you didn't come up with such an awesome name yourself!

[NeoMorpheus]

Wheres the outrage for nvidia lack of support for a proper open source driver?

[wertigon]

Wheres the outrage for nvidia lack of support for a proper open source driver?

At this point it is crystal clear Nvidia (the company not the devs, those are decent people) will never lift a finger to enable a Mesa integrated driver, so any further beating of that dead horse is both pointless and time wasting.

I wish the NVK devs all the luck in the world and I really hope NVK gets the chance to blossom into a driver as performant and full fledged as amdgpu, if not better.

At the same time, given Nvidias (recent) history, I am not ready to trust them to uphold their end of the bargain - I fully expect them to neuter NVK once it can prove better-than-Nvidia-driver perf. But let us wait and see. This time might be different. Just because I am suspicious does not mean my suspicions are correct.

[NeoMorpheus]

At this point it is crystal clear Nvidia (the company not the devs, those are decent people) will never lift a finger to enable a Mesa integrated driver, so any further beating of that dead horse is both pointless and time wasting.

I wish the NVK devs all the luck in the world and I really hope NVK gets the chance to blossom into a driver as performant and full fledged as amdgpu, if not better.

At the same time, given Nvidias (recent) history, I am not ready to trust them to uphold their end of the bargain - I fully expect them to neuter NVK once it can prove better-than-Nvidia-driver perf. But let us wait and see. This time might be different. Just because I am suspicious does not mean my suspicions are correct.

The horse might be dead, but like a good zombie, its eating the brains of smart people.

Thats the only explanation that i have for their actions.

Joke aside, I have to ask, wheres the outrage?

where are the people saying “i will never give nvidia another penny!”

Like they did with the recent Red Hat debacle.

Personally, i think these devs should drop this nonsense and instead work with AMD in making ROCm better.

[wertigon]

Joke aside, I have to ask, wheres the outrage?

Oh that is easy to answer, the people that actually gave a damn stopped caring about a broken company with broken ethics and went to a slightly less broken company with slightly less broken ethics.

[Eirikr1848]

NAK the Nvidia Awesome Kompiler…
Dev are 14 or what ?

Anyway, I’m curious to see how good it can be compared to the official driver in themes of perf.

If a 14 year old can make this happen, and you can’t, they can name it whatever they want.