NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux Driver Brings HDR Metadata Support
NVIDIA today issued the 580.94.11 driver release as their newest Vulkan beta driver for Linux customers. Most notable with this beta driver update is adding VK_EXT_hdr_metadata support.
The NVIDIA Windows driver has supported the VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension (all the way back to 2018) and the open-source Mesa Linux drivers also supported this HDR metadata extension while only now is being enabled by the NVIDIA Linux driver. VK_EXT_hdr_metadata is used for dealing with SMPTE 2086 metadata and CATA 861.3 metadata for Vulkan swapchains.
The VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension dates back to the Vulkan 1.0 days in 2017. This extension in turn is already used by Wine and other applications. The VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension only works under Wayland and not X.Org/X11.
In addition to enabling VK_EXT_hdr_metadata for the NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux driver, today's beta driver update also brings some minor VK_EXT_present_timing improvements for Linux users plus some performance improvements to vkCmdWriteTimestamp under some circumstances.
The updated NVIDIA Linux Vulkan driver beta can be downloaded from developer.nvidia.com.
The NVIDIA Windows driver has supported the VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension (all the way back to 2018) and the open-source Mesa Linux drivers also supported this HDR metadata extension while only now is being enabled by the NVIDIA Linux driver. VK_EXT_hdr_metadata is used for dealing with SMPTE 2086 metadata and CATA 861.3 metadata for Vulkan swapchains.
The VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension dates back to the Vulkan 1.0 days in 2017. This extension in turn is already used by Wine and other applications. The VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension only works under Wayland and not X.Org/X11.
In addition to enabling VK_EXT_hdr_metadata for the NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux driver, today's beta driver update also brings some minor VK_EXT_present_timing improvements for Linux users plus some performance improvements to vkCmdWriteTimestamp under some circumstances.
The updated NVIDIA Linux Vulkan driver beta can be downloaded from developer.nvidia.com.