---
title: 'NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat 16 Support'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23489-843ff900987b120789157452d7bf14bb'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23489-843ff900987b120789157452d7bf14bb.md'
date: '2025-03-27'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - 'artifical intelligence'
    - machinelearning
---

#  NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat 16 Support 

  March 27th at 10:16pm

 NVIDIA recently published beta drivers that introduce the recently released VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 extension in Vulkan 1.4.311 build. This extension allows for Brain Float BF16 operations within shaders in conjunction with the SPV_KHR_bfloat16 extension from SPIR-V. BFloat16 extensions should prove particularly useful for modern GPUs and software supporting Vulkan-accelerated machine learning / AI. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Vulkan-Beta-BF16)

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