NVIDIA Releases 418.52.10 Vulkan Linux Beta Driver

[jojo7887]

As I reported on the thread linked by GdeR it fails even with kernel 5.1.7. Running the installer with '--no-unified-memory' works around the issue for now.

[GdeR]

fail build with kernel 5.1.6

Keep an eye on this: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/t...-kernel-5-0-7/

[sl1pkn07]

fail build with kernel 5.1.6

[Comevius]

I don't know where vulkan is useful in Linux. Is it applied only in gaming?

It's used for gaming (it's particularly useful for game console emulators and translation libraries such as DXVK). There are GPU-accelerated image processing libraries (like libplacebo, based on libmpv). There is at least one Vulkan X11 window manager. It can be used in Android emulator instances to render the UI (Skia has a Vulkan backend, that should work in Linux too).

They are going to merge OpenCL into Vulkan in the future as well.

[Azrael5]

I don't know where vulkan is useful in Linux. Is it applied only in gaming?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Releases 418.52.10 Vulkan Linux Beta Driver

NVIDIA issued the 418.52.10 Linux beta driver this weekend (and version 425.62 for Windows) that offers their latest Vulkan API support...

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