NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Finally Adds External Memory Host Support
New to this Vulkan beta driver update is VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state and VK_EXT_external_memory_host support. Additionally, the Vulkan vkCmdMultiDraw*IndirectCount performance should be better for Pascal and older GPUs.
VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state was just introduced in this weekend's Vulkan 1.2.145 release with this extension being for adding more dynamic state for suiting applications needing to reduce the number of pipeline state objects they are compiling/binding.
This NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver also now supports VK_EXT_external_memory_host on Linux, which is long overdue. The external memory host extension has been published since 2017 and is for allowing an application/engine to import host allocations and host-mapped foreign device memory as Vulkan memory objects. The Mesa Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers have already exposed this extension for a while and even AMDVLK while the NVIDIA Linux driver is rather late to the party with this external memory host support.
The latest NVIDIA Vulkan beta drivers for Windows and Linux are available from developer.nvidia.com.
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