GoldenXThey are the first to implement the newest Vulkan extensions.

theoneandonlymrkgood point I read an article providing proof they already were ,but hey why just let a feature slip by ,mention it ,imply new purchase necessary then sell the same thing you sold anyway cut down a bit but running faster Wow go nvidia in the innovate department.

Game Ready Driver Optimized for DX12

NVIDIA also revealed an upcoming Game Ready Driver optimized for DirectX 12 games. The company refined code in the driver and worked side by side with game developers to deliver performance increases of up to 16 percent on average across a variety of DirectX 12 games, such as Ashes of the Singularity, Gears of War 4, Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy's The Division.(1)

(1) Figure averages the percentage increase of benchmark numbers in the following: GeForce GTX 1080 at 3840x2160 with launch driver 368.81 vs 378.74 on an Intel Core i7 5930K, 16GB DDR4 using Win10 x64. Ashes of the Singularity, Crazy Preset (46.5, 50.9 or 9%), Tom Clancy's The Division 1.6, Max Settings + 1x SMAA Ultra (31.5, 32.7 or 4%) Hitman, High Settings + High SSAO (50.6, 62.1 or 23%), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Very High + 2x SSAA (20.5, 27.2 or 33%), and Gears of War 4, Ultra Preset (41.2, 45.2 or 10%).

GoldenXIt's part of the (dirty) game of big corporations, remember Intel C Compiler? Nvidia of course promotes games without an API that's not good for them now, but the development has to continue, and in Khronos Nvidia is always the faster to test and implement the 3D APIs (not OpenCL).
Remember that AMD has a lead on Vulkan and DX12 thanks to using an architecture optimized for computing, not for investing on low level APIs out of the blue, they are years behind on OpenGL performance, for example.

The biggest offender here is Intel for not implementing Vulkan on DX12 capable GPUs on Windows, and nobody seems to complain about that.

NVIDIA is thrilled to see gamers having the opportunity to play Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. At launch, the current Game Ready driver (378.66) has complete support for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands and offers an exceptional gaming experience. Later this week, we’ll be releasing a new Game Ready driver which will introduce Ansel support for Ghost Recon Wildlands as well as some other surprises for gamers.

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