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title: 'Mesa’s CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20683-543e6dd70cf9c9e6c7bbf560a9cc6bf1'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-20683-543e6dd70cf9c9e6c7bbf560a9cc6bf1.md'
date: '2022-03-21'
taxonomy:
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#  Mesa’s CPU-Based Software Vulkan Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 

  March 21st at 2:50pm

 With the release of Mesa 22.1, Lavapipe exposes Vulkan 1.3 for running atop CPUs. 

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