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NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support


Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions..

That RADV Vulkan 1.4 support was spearheaded by Samuel Pitoiset of the Valve Linux graphics team. The smaller TURNIP(Qualcomm Adreno 700 series) and Honeykrisp(Apple Silicon) drivers also have open merge requests for Vulkan 1.4 support in Mesa. Over on the proprietary side, there is a NVIDIA Vulkan 1.4 driver beta for Linux and Windows systems.

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