Mesa NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) now Vulkan 1.4 conformant on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-nvk-nvidia-vulkan-driver-now-vulkan-1-4-conformant-on-maxwell-pascal-and-volta-gpus/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
God it feels so good looking at this news with a newly bought AMD GPU thinking "I don't have to worry about NVIDIA's bullshit anymore." 🥳
I have two PCs one with a 3080 TI one with a 7900 XTX, both running Bazzite. The difference is huge.
I felt this too. I made a new PC from a 3080 to a 7900 XT and I went from 30 FPS in Monster Hunter WIlds to 110 FPS (using linux). Even though I improved the CPU from 3800x to 9800 X3D, I feel like the 20 GB VRAM is the biggest factor. I hope Intel can catch up with GPUs because AMD is the only reasonable option rn.
Great.
I thought NVK was going to support only Turing and onwards, since it relied on GSP firmware.
I wonder if the GT 710 will ever get support