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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support


NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 'BF16' support within shaders.

NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 "BF16" support within shaders. These latest NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver builds can be downloaded from developer.nvidia.com. Though in beta form, this makes NVIDIA now the first vendor shipping Vulkan drivers with BF16 support.

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