Faith Ekstrand is an engineering fellow at Collabora.
"NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Nvidia hardware in Mesa, is ready for prime time. The merge request has landed, getting rid of the nonconformant implementation warnings and signalling to distros that it’s now time to start shipping NVK to users. I can’t speak on behalf of distros, but NVK will be part of Mesa 24.1 and you should expect to see it in either the spring or autumn release of your favourite Linux distro.
In October, I announced that NVK had reached Vulkan 1.0 conformance on Turing hardware. As of now, NVK is a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000), and Ada (RTX 4000) GPUs. Not only have we jumped forward three Vulkan versions, but the new test runs were done with the GSP firmware enabled and includes Ampere and Ada GPUs. Also, unlike the initial 1.0 run, there are no hacks. Each test we passed in those conformance test runs also passes on upstream Mesa.