NVIDIA engineers closed out February by releasing the NVIDIA 570.123.01 Vulkan beta driver for Linux and on the Windows side was the NVIDIA 572.63 driver release.
Today’s NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver releases are their first supporting the GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” GPUs. NVIDIA’s main driver branches on Linux and Windows already support Blackwell while these Vulkan beta driver streams are their first releases with Blackwell support integrated.
In addition to enabling Blackwell GPUs, the new Vulkan beta driver on Linux enables the VK_KHR_incremental_present, VK_NV_cluster_acceleration_structure, VK_NV_partitioned_acceleration_structure, and VK_NV_present_metering extensions. In addition, exclusive to Blackwell GPUs, there is now support for VK_NV_ray_tracing_linear_swept_spheres.
Some nice additions ofr Vulkan ray-tracing and the incremental present extension is another nice addition too.
The NVIDIA Vulkan beta drivers are available from developer.nvidia.com.
