NVK Articles & Reviews |
| Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver | Display Drivers | 2026-03-26 |
| AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025 | Graphics Cards | 2025-12-18 |
| NVIDIA GTX 980 Through RTX 5080: Open-Source Nouveau/Mesa Drivers vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Drivers | Display Drivers | 2025-12-11 |
| Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance | Display Drivers | 2025-11-28 |
| Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series | Display Drivers | 2025-07-14 |
| Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver | Display Drivers | 2023-08-11 |
| Dota 2 Vulkan Performance Across MacOS, Windows 10 & Linux | Linux Gaming | 2018-06-05 |
| Vulkan Is Now Available On macOS/iOS By MoltenVK Being Open-Sourced, Vulkan SDK for Mac | Operating Systems | 2018-02-26 |
NVK Linux & Open-Source News |
| Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode | Mesa | 2026-06-07 |
| New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers | Mesa | 2026-06-03 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support | Nouveau | 2026-06-02 |
| AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May | Free Software | 2026-06-01 |
| Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100 | Nouveau | 2026-05-28 |
| KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics | Mesa | 2026-05-28 |
| Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series | Mesa | 2026-05-27 |
| RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma | Radeon | 2026-05-25 |
| Arm Mali G1 Pro Now Working With Open-Source PanVK & Panfrost Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-13 |
| Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2026-05-06 |
| Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600 | Mesa | 2026-05-01 |
| Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations | Mesa | 2026-04-15 |
| Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release | Fedora | 2026-03-25 |
| Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect | Radeon | 2026-03-12 |
| Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g | Mesa | 2026-03-12 |
| Verisilicon DC8200 & Coreboot Framebuffer Drivers Sent To DRM-Next For Linux 7.1 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-28 |
| ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains | Nouveau | 2026-02-26 |
| GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support | Multimedia | 2026-02-26 |
| Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA | Mesa | 2026-02-23 |
| Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features: | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-22 |
| Mesa KosmicKrisp Driver Is Coming To iOS, More Performance & Vulkan 1.4 Expected | Mesa | 2026-02-20 |
| Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity | Mesa | 2026-02-15 |
| NVIDIA Posts Open-Source Nouveau GSP Driver Support For GA100 | NVIDIA | 2026-02-13 |
| Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2026-02-11 |
| A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-08 |
| Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For The Old R600g | Mesa | 2026-02-07 |
| Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance | Nouveau | 2026-02-05 |
| Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2026-02-04 |
| Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2026-01-28 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug | Nouveau | 2026-01-28 |
| Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland | Vulkan | 2026-01-27 |
| Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK | Mesa | 2026-01-21 |
| Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support | AI | 2026-01-12 |
| Mesa 26.0 RADV Merges The Big Ray-Tracing Improvement For UE5 Lumen | Radeon | 2026-01-08 |
| Radeon Linux Driver Enhancements, Linux 6.19 Activity & Other December Highlights | Phoronix | 2026-01-02 |
| NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink | NVIDIA | 2026-01-01 |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025 | Phoronix | 2025-12-31 |
| The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 | Mesa | 2025-12-30 |
| Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 | NVIDIA | 2025-12-26 |
| Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules | Arch Linux | 2025-12-20 |
| Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs | Nouveau | 2025-12-20 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance | Nouveau | 2025-12-18 |
| Blender Working On KosmicKrisp Support For Vulkan On macOS | Free Software | 2025-12-12 |
| Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete | Mesa | 2025-12-11 |
| Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November | Phoronix | 2025-12-01 |
| NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance | Nouveau | 2025-11-18 |
| NVK's Cooperative Matrix Support Proving Competitive With Official NVIDIA Driver | Nouveau | 2025-11-17 |
| Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2025-11-14 |
| Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-11-12 |
| Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" | Intel | 2025-11-06 |
| KosmicKrisp Now Vulkan 1.3 Compliant For Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-10-31 |
| Mesa 25.2.6 Released With Many Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-10-29 |
| PanVK Mali Vulkan Driver Lands In-Memory Cache & On-Disk Shader Cache Support | Mesa | 2025-10-27 |
| Mesa 25.3-rc2 Release Led By Intel, AMD Radeon & NVK Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-10-23 |
| KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0 | Mesa | 2025-10-20 |
| Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS | Nouveau | 2025-10-16 |
| Mesa 26.0 Enters Feature Development With Mesa 25.3 Branched | Mesa | 2025-10-16 |
| Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs | Radeon | 2025-10-15 |
| Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix | Mesa | 2025-10-15 |
| Tinygrad Gains A Mesa NIR Backend - Initially Supporting NVK/NAK & LLVMpipe Execution | AI | 2025-10-15 |
| Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver | Mesa | 2025-10-14 |
| Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance | Nouveau | 2025-10-06 |
| NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver | NVIDIA | 2025-09-29 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ With Framework Desktop, File-System Tests & EPYC 4005 Dominated Q3 | Phoronix | 2025-09-29 |
| Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object | Intel | 2025-09-05 |
| Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-09-03 |
| RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support | Radeon | 2025-08-27 |
| Mesa 25.2.1 Released: Restores NVK On Kepler, Additional Intel Battlemage ID | Mesa | 2025-08-20 |
| MoltenVK 1.4 Released For Bringing Vulkan 1.4 To macOS Atop Metal | Vulkan | 2025-08-20 |
| LunarG Announces KosmicKrisp As Vulkan-On-Metal Mesa Driver | Mesa | 2025-08-11 |
| Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension | Vulkan | 2025-08-09 |
| Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2025-08-06 |
| Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs | Mesa | 2025-08-04 |
| Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July | Phoronix | 2025-08-01 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update | Mesa | 2025-07-30 |
| Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-25 |
| Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV | Mesa | 2025-07-24 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated | Mesa | 2025-07-23 |
| NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source | NVIDIA | 2025-07-21 |
| Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17 | Nouveau | 2025-07-19 |
| Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| 12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced | NVIDIA | 2025-07-16 |
| More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver | Mesa | 2025-07-16 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK | Nouveau | 2025-07-15 |
| Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster | Nouveau | 2025-07-10 |
| Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell | Mesa | 2025-07-01 |
| NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa | Nouveau | 2025-06-27 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16 | Nouveau | 2025-05-19 |
| Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More | Vulkan | 2025-05-15 |
| NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs | Mesa | 2025-05-13 |
| Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2025-05-07 |
| NVIDIA Encouraging CUDA Users To Upgrade From Maxwell / Pascal / Volta | NVIDIA | 2025-05-03 |
| MoltenVK 1.3 Released For Vulkan 1.3 Support On Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-05-02 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-04-30 |
| MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices | Vulkan | 2025-04-28 |
| Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver | Mesa | 2025-04-25 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-23 |
| NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs | Mesa | 2025-04-22 |
| NVIDIA Engineer Posts New NOVA Driver Patches - Still Far From Doing Anything Useful | NVIDIA | 2025-04-20 |
| Mesa 25.1-rc1 Released With AMD RDNA4 Improvements, Lots Of RADV & Intel ANV Additions | Mesa | 2025-04-16 |
| Mesa 25.1 Panfrost & PanVK Begin Supporting Newer Arm Mali 5th Gen Graphics | Mesa | 2025-04-15 |
| Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations | Mesa | 2025-03-30 |
| Nova DRM Skeleton Patches Further Flesh Out This Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver | Nouveau | 2025-03-27 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top | NVIDIA | 2025-03-22 |
| Mesa 25.0.2 Changes Range From Fixing Soft FP64 For Old AMD GPUs To RX 9070 Fixes | Mesa | 2025-03-20 |
| Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL | Nouveau | 2025-03-11 |
| CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS | WINE | 2025-03-11 |
| Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers | Mesa | 2025-03-07 |
| Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2025-02-23 |
| Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready | Mesa | 2025-02-19 |
| VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support | WINE | 2025-02-19 |
| Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes | Mesa | 2025-02-12 |
| Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1 | Mesa | 2025-02-11 |
| Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions | Mesa | 2025-01-30 |
| PanVK Driver Now Exposing Vulkan 1.1 For Arm Mali Valhall v10 GPUs | Mesa | 2025-01-23 |
| VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan | Valve | 2025-01-10 |
| Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2025-01-07 |
| NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series | NVIDIA | 2025-01-06 |
| Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4 | Mesa | 2024-12-30 |
| NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 | NVIDIA | 2024-12-28 |
| PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel | Mesa | 2024-12-12 |
| Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes | Mesa | 2024-12-04 |
| NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support | Mesa | 2024-12-02 |
| Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-11-21 |
| Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers | Mesa | 2024-11-13 |
| Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics | Mesa | 2024-11-08 |
| Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development | Mesa | 2024-11-08 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support | Nouveau | 2024-10-13 |
| Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set | Nouveau | 2024-10-11 |
| Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model | Intel | 2024-10-08 |
| LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa | Mesa | 2024-10-08 |
| Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2024-10-03 |
| Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2024-10-01 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support | NVIDIA | 2024-09-24 |
| Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal | Mesa | 2024-09-18 |
| Mesa PanVK Vulkan Driver Sees Initial Support For Arm Mali 2nd Gen Valhall GPUs | Mesa | 2024-09-12 |
| Linux 6.11-rc7 To Fix A "Massive Performance Regression" For AMD Graphics | Radeon | 2024-09-06 |
| Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box | Mesa | 2024-09-05 |
| Mesa 24.2.1 Released, Mesa 24.1 Series Comes To An End | Mesa | 2024-08-29 |
| Mesa's PanVK Vulkan Driver Prepares For Arm Mali Valhall Support | Mesa | 2024-08-24 |
| Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal | Vulkan | 2024-08-20 |
| More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3 | Nouveau | 2024-08-18 |
| Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache | Mesa | 2024-08-14 |
| Open-Source Apple GPU Vulkan Driver Merged For Mesa 24.3 | Mesa | 2024-07-27 |
| Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2024-07-19 |
| NVK Driver Lands New Platform Abstraction - Working Toward Allowing Other Kernel Drivers | Mesa | 2024-07-09 |
| Marek Lands 40 Patch Series To Further Enhance The Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver | Mesa | 2024-06-12 |
| "Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver | Apple | 2024-06-05 |
| NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May | Phoronix | 2024-06-01 |
| Mesa 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync Vulkan Drivers, More Mature NVK Driver | Mesa | 2024-05-22 |
