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Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Nouveau on 18 December 2025 at 01:20 PM EST. 4 Comments
Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance.

Coincidentally just hours after our latest NVK vs. NVIDIA (and AMD Radeon) graphics benchmarks, the NVK compression support has been merged to Mesa Git for helping to deliver better performance.

Merged for the Nouveau kernel graphics driver in Linux 6.19 is compression support and enabling larger pages. The compression support merged today to the Mesa NVK driver makes use of that new kernel driver functionality.

👁 NVK compression merged


Mohamed Ahmed explained in the four month old merge request for this NVK compression support:
"What this does is enable compression (commonly known as DCC and zeta compression for color and depth/stencil, respectively) for nvk. As a bonus this also enables larger page sizes (64K and 2M) for compressed images as the HW can only do compression on these page sizes."

More details for those interested via the merge request. Fresh Linux 6.19 + Mesa 26.0-devel Nouveau/NVK benchmarks soon.

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