Time for a little modernization. With the next version of Mesa 25.1, the developer collaborated Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for users of Nvidia GPU. If you do not use the owner Nvidia driver, that is to say.
The old new OpenGL driver will no longer be used by default, and instead, they communicate it out of the box to use Zink + NVK. A merger For Mesa to change for “Turing and above”, it’s like the GeForce RTX 20XX series and the GeForce GTX 16xx and more recent series was opened in May 2024 with on the verge of being fired now.
Confused? As a reminder – Zink is an open implementation above Vulkan. While NVK is a Vulkan pilot for Nvidia GPUs. Ekstrand mentioned how Zink has “matured a lot” and they are “quite confident that Zink + NVK will be an improvement compared to new GL at all levels”.
Mesa 25.1 is due to a fourth candidate for liberation on May 7, or to the final version of 25.1 if it is deemed ready. So not so long to wait for it.
Learn more in the Collabora News Post.
Article drawn from Gamingonlinux.com.