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Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver.
NVC0 Gallium3D is barely maintained these days especially compared to the actively-developed NVK driver within Mesa by Faith Ekstrand of Collabora and other open-source developers. Most NVIDIA users will still be best off using the official NVIDIA Linux driver stack with proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan especially given the headaches with the current Nouveau kernel driver (though with time the NOVA kernel driver will hopefully take shape well and become a viable alternative) and now another win for Zink in the books.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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