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And pretty soon, NVK!
NVK is already usable, performancr isn't 100% of the proprietary driver but I play Overwatch on NVK at 165FPS on my RTX3070 laptop a lot, low settings but very playable. This is with an Optimus configuration (VRR Freesync panel on AMD iGPU) in GNOME Wayland.
oh wow, I have a 3080 TI desktop GPU, I should try it with Overwatch 2 + NVK.
Also: Thanks for OpenRGB. I love it.
Wasn't nova the new driver?
Never heard of that one. NVK is a brand new open source driver that uses features of the RTX series to reverse engineer Nvidia drivers. According to the project team, those features make it much easier than before, but it limits the scope to RTX series cards and onward.
This is a good discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cqcnr3/whats_the_difference_between_nvidia_open_source/
Essentially, Nova is a kernel level driver and not user level