This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Mesa NVK driver is now officially declared a Vulkan 1.3 conformant implementation by the Khronos Group!

In turn the NVK driver is no longer considered experimental and with Mesa 24.1 will build by default for x86/x86_64-based installations.

Mesa Git paired with Linux 6.8 Git is passing all the necessary Vulkan 1.3 conformance test suite (CTS) tests that The Khronos Group has acknowledged NVK as a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation.

Linux 6.8 is critical on the Nouveau kernel driver side for the NVIDIA GSP firmware support to achieve better performance although your mileage may vary.

With that said, this merge request hitting Mesa 24.1-devel a few minutes ago proclaims NVK a “a real Vulkan driver now.”

Congrats to all those continuing to work on this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa.

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