NVIDIA Releases GeForce 441.99 Beta Drivers with Vulkan 1.2 API Support

btarunr · Jan 15, 2020

NVIDIA today released its first developer beta drivers that support the new Vulkan 1.2 3D graphics API. Labeled GeForce 441.99, under the R440-series, the drivers extend Vulkan 1.2 support to all NVIDIA graphics architectures going back to "Kepler." That would include GTX 600/700-series "Kepler," GTX 700/900-series "Maxwell," GTX 10-series "Pascal," and GTX 16/RTX 20-series "Turing," along with TITAN and Quadro graphics cards based on these architectures. NVIDIA states that its API support for Vulkan 1.2 is "full," including including support for timeline semaphores, descriptor indexing, buffer device address and SPIR-V 1.5 features.

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Fluffmeister · Jan 15, 2020

As always, good day-0 support from those meanies at Nvidia.

xkm1948 · Jan 15, 2020

Fluffmeister said:
As always, good day-0 support from those meanies at Nvidia.

And good support for multiple gen of GPUs too!

ZeroFM · Jan 15, 2020

Still on 436.15 , working perfect

GoldenX · Jan 15, 2020

Theirs was pretty simple, Nvidia already supported everything Vulkan 1.2 promoted.
Now Intel and AMD on the other hand...

catulitechup · Jan 15, 2020

with linux works ok

Prima.Vera · Jan 16, 2020

Does the latest Vulcan support RTRT ?? Just curious...

oobymach · Jan 16, 2020

Tested DOOM with vulkan 1.2 and runs very good, maybe better than opengl.

ratirt · Jan 16, 2020

GoldenX said:
Theirs was pretty simple, Nvidia already supported everything Vulkan 1.2 promoted.
Now Intel and AMD on the other hand...

The New AMD driver is supposed to support the Vulcan 1.2

Recus · Jan 16, 2020

Prima.Vera said:
Does the latest Vulcan support RTRT ?? Just curious...

For the gaming crowds out there, marquee feature additions such as ray tracing, variable rate shading, and mesh shaders will eventually come, but Vulkan 1.2 is not that kind of release.

JB_Gamer · Jan 16, 2020

But how can it be downloaded, latest still 441.87?

Found it

birdie · Jan 16, 2020

Prima.Vera said:
Does the latest Vulcan support RTRT ?? Just curious...

Even 1.1 supported it as a vendor only extension. It's not yet mandatory for the spec as it will require new HW or an upgrade to a new GPU for >99.95% of users out there (yeah, considering Vulkan is supported on Android there are over 2 billion Vulkan users in the world and I don't think NVIDIA has sold more than a million RTX cards). I'm not even sure if it's gonna become mandatory in the next five years.

oobymach said:
Tested DOOM with vulkan 1.2 and runs very good, maybe better than opengl.

Vulkan 1.2 brings support for new features - it should have excatly zero effect on previously released games and applications.

GoldenX · Jan 16, 2020

ratirt said:
The New AMD driver is supposed to support the Vulcan 1.2

Yes, got it yesterday. Same story as Nvidia, everything that was promoted to 1.2 was already supported.

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NVIDIA Releases GeForce 441.99 Beta Drivers with Vulkan 1.2 API Support

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