LunarG in August [1]announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase.

[2]This merge adding KosmicKrisp to the available Mesa drivers was merged today, following other recent prerequisite merges to Mesa. With this KosmicKrisp is providing Vulkan 1.3 on Apple hardware. Google continues sponsoring LunarG in making this open-source driver a reality. Vulkan 1.4 API support and other improvements are still planned.

With Mesa 25.3 having been branched last week, KosmicKrisp is one of the early features to look forward to with Mesa 26.0 in Q1.

For those wanting to learn more about KosmicKrisp, LunarG's Aitor Camacho Larrondo presented at XDC 2025 last month on the effort. There is the [3]PDF slide deck and [4]video recording to learn more about this exciting KosmicKrisp driver.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/KosmicKrisp-Vulkan-Metal

[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/37522

[3] https://www.lunarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/XDC-2025-KosmicKrisp-Overview.pdf

[4] https://video.tuwien.ac.at/events/xdc/v/Ow9xtIyJeTt?t=03h39m12s