Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Game While Using GSP Firmware

[Developer12]

I too use nvidia in offload mode, at 1080p (1060 and haswell) it reaches x00 fps without much troubles.

Is there an additional bottelneck here?

You're doing it using an implementation that isn't a hacked-together proof-of-concept. This is a demo, and you shouldn't expect the same level of refinement as with a proper PRIME GPU offload solution. Doing it manually like this incurs all kinds of synchronization costs.

[Developer12]

Really great news!

Hope this also works for Tegra, Ubuntu 18.04 on Switch L4T is starting to show its age...

The tegra is a completely separate open source driver.

[sarmad]

I too use nvidia in offload mode, at 1080p (1060 and haswell) it reaches x00 fps without much troubles.

Is there an additional bottelneck here?

My thoughts exactly. Offloading certainly isn't the cause of the slowness, or at least not the main cause. I'm guessing re-clocking is still not fully working, if at all.

[kokoko3k]

I too use nvidia in offload mode, at 1080p (1060 and haswell) it reaches x00 fps without much troubles.

Is there an additional bottelneck here?

[toughy]

Does anyone know how the GSP performs on a desktop card, or in opengl?

Supposedly the GSP firmware is the same one used in the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, so the answer should be it performs very well. How the GSP performs with the open-source driver, I guess nobody knows, because the Linux kernel module for it is not out yet. And it looks like it will take many months before it will be ready, as NVIDIA is not working on the nouveau module, unlike AMD or Intel that develop the kernel drivers for their products. The open-source kernel module that NVIDIA does provide is not included into Linux, as it is mostly generated automatically from their internal sources after new releseases of the proprietary driver.

To be fair I think NVIDIA may offer some limited support or cooperation for developing the nouveau kernel module, but we don't know much about it and it must be very limited.

I asked the same thing about OpenGL, so I don't know, but I can only expect the old driver will not work and will need to be replaced by Zink.

[brad0]

Does anyone know how the GSP performs on a desktop card, or in opengl?

So you didn't even read what it said?

[saladin]

Does anyone know how the GSP performs on a desktop card, or in opengl?

[Snaipersky]

Tegra doesn't have relocking issues, unlike other NV drivers.

[Britoid]

Really great news!

Hope this also works for Tegra, Ubuntu 18.04 on Switch L4T is starting to show its age...

I feel like Tegra has a completely different setup to the desktop in how the driver needs to work.

[Phemg]

Really great news!

Hope this also works for Tegra, Ubuntu 18.04 on Switch L4T is starting to show its age...