NVIDIA 515.49.10 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Pipeline Robustness

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 515.49.10 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Pipeline Robustness

NVIDIA released new Vulkan beta driver builds last night for Linux and Windows users...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-515.49.10

[aufkrawall]

You gotta give Nvidia that they are really committed to make API wrappers work well. Apart from Diablo 2R in VKD3D-Proton, I also haven't seen any games showing (supposedly) driver-inflicted visual artifacts at all. Also, GPU bound performance hit of VKD3D-Proton seems to have been greatly reduced, e.g. in Hitman 3 it's now <10% for me with 3060.

[stormcrow]

You gotta give Nvidia that they are really committed to make API wrappers work well. Apart from Diablo 2R in VKD3D-Proton, I also haven't seen any games showing (supposedly) driver-inflicted visual artifacts at all. Also, GPU bound performance hit of VKD3D-Proton seems to have been greatly reduced, e.g. in Hitman 3 it's now <10% for me with 3060.

I did. Had to roll back to 510 on a Mint installation on a 1060 laptop. It's a very real bug and I don't intend to move back to 515 anytime soon.

[rabcor]

Open source drivers in mainline kernel when?

[abu_shawarib]

Open source drivers in mainline kernel when?

Current driver is no where near acceptable for mainline.

[Linuxxx]

You gotta give Nvidia that they are really committed to make API wrappers work well. Apart from Diablo 2R in VKD3D-Proton, I also haven't seen any games showing (supposedly) driver-inflicted visual artifacts at all. Also, GPU bound performance hit of VKD3D-Proton seems to have been greatly reduced, e.g. in Hitman 3 it's now <10% for me with 3060.

True.

Recently I wanted to see just how good so I ran the Windows version of GravityMark through plain WINE-Staging with the latest DXVK 1.10.2 + stable nVidia 515 driver.

For comparison's sake, here are two Windows results with the very same benchmark settings I competed with:

1.
- Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22000
- AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Processor
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (non-Ti)
Score: 22,154

https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/report/?id=9fb345b140f54f91320165024c4581a3afb823a6

2.
- Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22593
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Score: 23,375

https://gravitymark.tellusim.com/report/?id=8a0aab84e280043c0bd9240429165b3ed9213baf

And here is my result with the very same settings on Intel i7-11700F + Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS but running in OpenBox, because the Mutter-based compositor had problems running the benchmark with uncapped framerates:



Not bad I'd say, considering the best-in-class Windows DX11 driver by nVidia vs. running translated to Vulkan via DXVK on Linux!

[Monsterovich]

NVidia 515 driver is not even stable. https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/...anymore/221467