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title: 'Introducing NVK, a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21230-cfc19f8799cf910bc0c9972ea06fcf9c'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21230-cfc19f8799cf910bc0c9972ea06fcf9c.md'
date: '2022-10-04'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - mesa
---

#  Introducing NVK, a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa 

  October 4th at 6:31pm

 The NVK driver has been written almost entirely from scratch using the new official headers from NVIDIA. Mesa translates specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers. The long-term hope is for NVK to be for NVIDIA hardware what RADV is to AMD hardware. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html)

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