Friday, June 19th 2026 NVIDIA Open-Source Linux NVK Driver Gets Experimental DLSS Support by Cpt.Jank Today, 21:18 Discuss (0 ) The open-source, community-driven NVIDIA Linux driver stack has been on a constant march towards feature-parity with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. The latest news in Mesa driver stack comes by way of NVK, the open-source NVK Vulkan driver, which recently merged support for DLSS support on NVIDIA GPUs. As reported by Phoronix, the pull request will see DLSS support merge into Mesa 26.2 via the VK_NVX_binary_import binary extension, which is slated to launch in the stable update in August 2026, and the feature is currently set to experimental by default. In order to enable DLSS support, players will need to add NVK_EXPERIMENTAL=dlss environmental variable. Recent performance comparisons still show significant performance differences between the open-source driver and NVIDIA's proprietary driver, however, it seems as though continued community contributions have started to close those gaps. Support for DLSS on the open-source driver should also help mitigate some of the performance regressions present in current NVK driver versions. Sources: GitLab, via Phoronix Related News Tags: DLSS Driver GPU Linux NVIDIA Source Support test Update Vulkan Jan 16th 2026 NVIDIA Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next (210) Sep 10th 2025 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-Series SUPER GPUs Could Arrive at CES 2026 (69) Sep 18th 2025 NVIDIA Buys $5B Worth of Intel, RTX iGPUs Coming to x86, Shares up 25% (256) Mar 30th 2026 NVIDIA Readies Rubin-based GeForce RTX 60-series with Massive RT Performance Gains (162) Dec 31st 2025 Leaks Predict $5000 RTX 5090 GPUs in 2026 Thanks to AI Industry Demand (124) Sep 3rd 2025 NVIDIA Discrete GPU Market Share Dominance Expands to 94%, Notes Report (237) Jul 28th 2025 NVIDIA to Debut GeForce RTX 50-series SUPER GPUs by Christmas (112) Sep 29th 2025 March-April Release of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series SUPER Lineup, Possible CES Reveal (73) Mar 16th 2026 NVIDIA Unveils DLSS 5 with Real-Time Neural Rendering (305) Mar 19th 2026 NVIDIA DLSS 5 Gets 84% Dislikes on YouTube as Backlash Grows (132) Add your own on NVIDIA Open-Source Linux NVK Driver Gets Experimental DLSS Support There are no yet.
