NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support

Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As we've seen with prior Vulkan specs, today's Vulkan 1.4 spec release is greeted by same-day Mesa patches...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4-Mesa-Drivers

[davidbepo]

> As of writing there isn't any Vulkan 1.4 merge request for the Intel ANV driver but that will presumably come soon.
Image literally shows it first
bruh

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Awesome! And thanks yet again Valve.

[Mitch]

When we see devices with Vulkan 1.4 compliance, do we think Proton, Browsers, Media Players, and/or Desktop Environments will all benefit from that much later on, or is there more near-term benefit?

[dlq84]

When we see devices with Vulkan 1.4 compliance, do we think Proton, Browsers, Media Players, and/or Desktop Environments will all benefit from that much later on, or is there more near-term benefit?

There is no reason not to assume today's modern GPUs already support 1.4.

Applications would have to use the APIs to benefit from them. Could be today, could be tomorrow. It depends.

[Mitch]

There is no reason not to assume today's modern GPUs already support 1.4.

Applications would have to use the APIs to benefit from them. Could be today, could be tomorrow. It depends.

Well, if I understand the article, we see Nvidia and AMD providing driver support, but perhaps that's for future HW to some extent

Edit: seems like they have support on existing hardware

[davidbepo]

There is no reason not to assume today's modern GPUs already support 1.4.

Applications would have to use the APIs to benefit from them. Could be today, could be tomorrow. It depends.

bruh, it literally has passed conformance on polaris, basically every GPU release this decade, and then some supports vulkan 1.4

[nuetzel]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/32432

[nuetzel]

tu (on supported chips) is in, now.

[reba]

I would be happy, if is was more transparent (to me), if driver support for specific hardware was provided by the manufacturer or by volunteers.

Especially for Nvidia hardware, as there are many people fighting a difficult fight against the manufacturer to get things working and in the end consumers think it was nvidia that did stuff but in fact they just sat on their hands and sabotaged honest work of others - and to add insult to injury - get the praise.