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[#]: subject: "A New Open Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Graphics is Ready to Test!"
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[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/nvidia-nvk/"
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[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/"
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[#]: collector: "lkxed"
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A New Open Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Graphics is Ready to Test!
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A new open-source driver is in the making for NVIDIA graphics! Some good progress here...
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![A New Open Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA Graphics is Ready to Test!][1]
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**NVK** is a new open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA Graphics hardware and aims to be the new go-to graphics driver.
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This was made possible in part due to Nvidia releasing open-source GPU kernel modules for its data center GPUs and consumer cards (GTX/RTX).
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[NVIDIA Takes a Big Step to Improve its GPU Experience on Linux][2]
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It has enabled developers to improve open-source drivers and enable more features than what was possible before.
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Let's take a look at what NVK has to offer.
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### New NVK Open-Source Driver for NVIDIA GPU
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**Jason Ekstrand** (engineer at Collabora) and a few others from Red Hat have been writing the code for NVK for the past few months.
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They could take advantage of the unified firmware BLOBs that Turing GPUs offer, and built on top of it with Vulkan support.
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**But, open-source nouveau drivers exist, right?**
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NVK is very different from the nouveau drivers, as it has been written from scratch.
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Nouveau, a major open-source driver suite for Nvidia GPUs has fallen into disrepair, and trying to build on it is a task not many can take up.
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Of course, skillful engineers worked on it, but lack of corporate backing and contributors affected its evolution.
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**NVK aims to get over those while focusing on support for GPUs of the Turing series and later to start with.**
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Support for older GPUs such as Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal might not come to NVK that easily, because of how the kernel is being developed. It might have a hard dependency on the new kernel, resulting in support for newer GPUs only.
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Also, the nouveau kernel interface not playing nice with Vulkan and hindering support for older GPUs.
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But, there is still scope for further testing, which can result in support for older GPUs with NVK.
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Of course, with more community contributions, NVK can be improved with additional features and GPU support.
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### How To Try It Out?
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NVK is currently available in a very alpha-build state, with many features missing and under constant development.
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**So, it is not yet ready for all kinds of users to get a hands on it.**
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You can still try it out by pulling and building it from the nvk/main branch from the [nouveau/mesa project][4] on freedesktop.org.
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If you want, you can also contribute to the development of NVK by heading over to the [nvk/main branch][5] of the same.
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For more technical info, you can refer to the [official announcement][6].
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### Future Potential
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NVK has a lot of potential, especially compared to the aging [nouveau][7] graphics driver suite.
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This can lead to a proper successor of nouveau and a mainstream open-source Nvidia graphics driver suite for Linux with a lot of functionality on offer.
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💬 *What are your thoughts on this? Do you think this will finally achieve what nouveau drivers failed to?*
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via: https://news.itsfoss.com/nvidia-nvk/
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作者：[Sourav Rudra][a]
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选题：[lkxed][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/
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[b]: https://github.com/lkxed
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[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1200/2022/10/opensource-native-vulkan-gpu-driver-for-nvidia.png
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[2]: https://news.itsfoss.com/nvidia-open-source-linux/
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[4]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouveau/mesa
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[5]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/nouveau/mesa/-/tree/nvk/main/
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[6]: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html
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[7]: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
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