Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand has announced a nice big milestone for the open source Mesa driver NVK, the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, as it has expanded Vulkan 1.4 conformance to now include Maxwell+ (Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs).
  • IEatDaGoat@lemm.eeEnglish
    121·
    21 hours ago

    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.” 🥳

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      I have two PCs one with a 3080 TI one with a 7900 XTX, both running Bazzite. The difference is huge.

      • Aphelion@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        I just made the switch from a 3080 ti to a 7900 xtx and definitely agree, the difference is huge, but I wonder how much of that is the 2 generation upgrade leap or AMD vs Nvidia.

      • IEatDaGoat@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        21 hours ago

        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.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Great.

    I thought NVK was going to support only Turing and onwards, since it relied on GSP firmware.