Less than a week after [1]their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems.

The NVIDIA 595.44.03 driver for Linux and 595.92 for Windows is shipping today for supporting the prominent new VK_KHR_device_address_commands extension. [2]VK_KHR_device_address_commands debuted with Vulkan 1.4.346 as a long-in-development extension worked on by a wide variety of different organizations.

As explained in that earlier article today, VK_KHR_device_address_commands is intended to address a current Vulkan API limitation that applications / game engines end up currently needing to pass both buffer handles and device addresses. Since Vulkan 1.2 with VK_KHR_buffer_device_address there is the ability to obtain device addresses for buffers, but lots of functionality still depends upon buffer objects rather than device addresses. With VK_KHR_device_address_commands, that gap has been addressed.

With this NVIDIA Vulkan developer beta driver, VK_KHR_device_address_commands is now supported. The new Vulkan beta driver also adds host image copy support for all depth/stencil image formats on the latest Blackwell GPUs. There is also support for stencil aspect copies in different configurations. Plus a few fixes too.

Downloads and more details on this new NVIDIA Vulkan driver beta via [3]developer.nvidia.com .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.02-Linux-Vulkan

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.346-Released

[3] https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver