Open Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance

Open Source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware.

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Damn, that was insanely fast, quadruply so compared to Nouveau
- It says “ready by the end of 2024” so not quite there yet. Still, a very good development for sure.
Congrats to the devs!
What does this mean for the average user?
- A step toward having an nvidia driver that comes with your open source Linux distro
  
  I meant, how is it different than what I had before? What is vulkan 1.0?
I have been reading news about NVK release 1.0

Only this time I see NVK mentioned as open source Nvidia driver.
I wonder if the open source driver will ever be able to replicate quite advanced features such as frame generation.

DLSS is easy enough - make the driver have a generic hook compatible with the Windows DLL, which Proton already can use.

But frame generation? It actually requires the driver to intercept quite a lot of calls from the game engine.

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