NVIDIA Adding Experimental Vulkan Support For Executing CUDA Binaries

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Adding Experimental Vulkan Support For Executing CUDA Binaries

Today's Vulkan 1.2.178 specification update notes a rather peculiar vendor extension in the works: VK_NVX_binary_import...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-1.2.178-NVX-Bin-Import

[baka0815]

I thought that should have been one of the main benefits of Vulkan over OpenGL: no vendor specific lock-ins.

[pracedru]

CUDA is really beginning to be a pain now.
I would love to use CUDA in a game, but since it can't be used on GPU's from other vendors I wont.
Eventually Nvidia has to decide if CUDA is going to be a mainstream API or a niche platform.

[tildearrow]

Attempt to kill Vulkan Compute? No, thanks....

[schmidtbag]

I'm trying to understand what real-world applications would actually care about this, other than maybe Blender.

[Danny3]

As always with 9 out of 10 news about this vendor:
Fuck you Nvidia!

[ernstp]

Attempt to kill Vulkan Compute? No, thanks....

I was just about to say the same thing :-)

[piotrj3]

I'm trying to understand what real-world applications would actually care about this, other than maybe Blender.

I don't think it is quite the target as Blender already can leverage CUDA and Optix raytracing together.

[loganj]

baka0815 if i'm not wrong, there are a lot of vulkan extension specific to one vendor or another

[baka0815]

As I have been told those extensions were *proposed* by one vendor but useful also to others. This one would be only useful to nv until they open up their binary format.