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title: 'Intels Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23643-1f2cc8244cdd3fb6fc0574f4754b32bd'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23643-1f2cc8244cdd3fb6fc0574f4754b32bd.md'
date: '2025-05-05'
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#  Intels Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 

  May 5th at 8:29pm

 Last month, VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 introduced support for BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Mesa 25,2 recently merge that BFloat16 support for Intels open-source Vulkan Linux driver. The necessary changes to Mesas SPIR-V code, the NIR intermediate representation, and the Intel ANV driver code is now merged for allowing BFloat16 data type use, potentially useful for Vulkan-accelerated AI / machine learning software among other Vulkan compute use cases. 

 [ Read More  ](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/34105)

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