Nvidia/Vulkan Pleasant surprise 615.71.09

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Looked at zypper dup and noticed a kernel update and vulkan updates so as per usual I went to the Nvidia drivers page and noticed there was also a new driver version for the 6xx branch (615.71.09). I installed “the hard way” with the proprietary version and WOW … just wow. Haven’t tested the open flavor yet … I’ll leave that to you guys.

These numbers are about 1600 points above what I usually get. Nice to have some good news for once :partying_face:

dart@widowmaker:~/Downloads> vkmark -p immediate 
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    vkmark 2025.01
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    Vendor ID:      0x10DE
    Device ID:      0x2482
    Device Name:    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
    Driver Version: 2580660800
    Device UUID:    7aabb5d2009df5746d930a8d810e373f
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[vertex] device-local=true: FPS: 18843 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[vertex] device-local=false: FPS: 12396 FrameTime: 0.081 ms
[texture] anisotropy=0: FPS: 18822 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[texture] anisotropy=16: FPS: 18852 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[shading] shading=gouraud: FPS: 18756 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[shading] shading=blinn-phong-inf: FPS: 18810 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[shading] shading=phong: FPS: 18719 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[shading] shading=cel: FPS: 18697 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[effect2d] kernel=edge: FPS: 18767 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[effect2d] kernel=blur: FPS: 18685 FrameTime: 0.054 ms
[desktop] <default>: FPS: 17244 FrameTime: 0.058 ms
[cube] <default>: FPS: 18766 FrameTime: 0.053 ms
[clear] <default>: FPS: 17886 FrameTime: 0.056 ms
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                                   vkmark Score: 18095
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Every time a new driver comes out I mainly can’t wait to test if I can enable all four of my monitors at the same time without the system black screening and stalling :grimacing: I don’t see anything in the notes but I’ll give it a try.