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title: 'Imagination’s GPU Driver Update Adds Support for Vulkan and OpenCL Extensions'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23978-e92afa4e1fd71112fedf6ebc1f81212c'
markdown: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-23978-e92afa4e1fd71112fedf6ebc1f81212c.md'
date: '2025-10-10'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - opencl
---

#  Imagination’s GPU Driver Update Adds Support for Vulkan and OpenCL Extensions 

  October 10th at 4:40pm

 In Imagination's latest version of their Linux and Android Driver Development Kits, changes include: VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix - This extension provides Vulkan developers with a standardised and widely supported way to handle cooperative matrix operations, which are particularly useful for high-performance matmul in compute shaders.An overhaul of their Vulkan driver’s shader and pipeline compilation process. OpenCL extensions - Developers can now use pinned memory via CL_USE_HOST_PTR and CL_ALLOC_HOST_PTR, proving an effective tool for bandwidth-intensive applications, repetitive transfers and memory transfer limited segments of applications. 

 [ Read More  ](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/driver-update-adds-support-for-vulkan-and-opencl-extensions)

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