NVIDIA released Beta driver 595.45.04 for Linux and it includes support for some new Vulkan extensions that could help improve gaming performance.

This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it’s properly implemented.

  • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Vulkan developers said last year that this is the single biggest bottleneck on Nvidia cards that they are aware of. Of course, the final performance improvement can only be known once it is properly implemented, but their guestimation is that it should bring the performance much closer to Windows performance.