NVIDIA Releases New R595-Derived Vulkan Developer Beta For Linux With New Features
Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features.
Today's release is the 595.44.02 beta driver compared to last week's 595.45.04 driver beta. This NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver was branched off earlier from their codebase but does have some new Vulkan features that have yet to be introduced into their mainline branch / 595.45.04 driver.
Today's driver release adds descriptorHeapCaptureReplay support, complementing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support introduced in last week's driver release. The descriptorHeapCaptureReplay is useful for Vulkan capture replay tools.
This new driver beta also adds image compression support for multi-planar YCbCr formats. There is also DMA-BUF export with DRM format modifiers for YCbCr formats but the compression support there is pending.
The NVIDIA 595.44.02 Linux driver also brings performance improvements to the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap implementation, improving device lost behavior, fixing Vulkan Video AV1 encoding issues on Blackwell GPUs, and various other Vulkan driver fixes.
This latest NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver for Windows and Linux systems can be downloaded from developer.nvidia.com.
Today's release is the 595.44.02 beta driver compared to last week's 595.45.04 driver beta. This NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver was branched off earlier from their codebase but does have some new Vulkan features that have yet to be introduced into their mainline branch / 595.45.04 driver.
Today's driver release adds descriptorHeapCaptureReplay support, complementing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support introduced in last week's driver release. The descriptorHeapCaptureReplay is useful for Vulkan capture replay tools.
This new driver beta also adds image compression support for multi-planar YCbCr formats. There is also DMA-BUF export with DRM format modifiers for YCbCr formats but the compression support there is pending.
The NVIDIA 595.44.02 Linux driver also brings performance improvements to the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap implementation, improving device lost behavior, fixing Vulkan Video AV1 encoding issues on Blackwell GPUs, and various other Vulkan driver fixes.
This latest NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver for Windows and Linux systems can be downloaded from developer.nvidia.com.