I’m a bit confused about what’s going on but as far as I understand, due to NVIDIA allowing redistribution of their blobs, nouveau can now set the clock speed of GPUs. This is giving us a huge boost in performance in nouveau.
How exactly do I test this out? Arch wiki does not say anything about NVK, but I see it’s mentioned on everything about this change. Do I need to do anything to get/use NVK other than uninstalling the proprietary driver? And, are we getting a performance boost only on Vulkan?
Most of my info comes from this post: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html
Performance boost isn’t Vulkan-only. GSP reclocking benefits everything, Vulkan or otherwise. NVK is strictly a Vulkan driver, but Zink, which implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan, currently has better performance when used with NVK than the old OpenGL driver, so it can also be considered to improve performance across the board. Right now it’s a pain to set up tho, since it’s not ready for prime time quite yet. Can’t really help you there, since I don’t have Nvidia hardware. The Collabora guys say they want it to be in Fedora 40, which means NVK should start showing up in distros by next April. It’ll probably be much easier to test things out by then.