New:

- VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch
- Support for VK_FORMAT_R8G8B8A8_UNORM presentation on Windows
- Support for extendedDynamicState3ColorBlendAdvanced on older pre-Pascal GPUs
- Support for Loader ICD interface version 7

Fixes:

- Fixed a bug that caused Vulkan X11 swapchain creation to fail on GPUs without a display engine when the VK_KHR_present_id extension is used
- Improve vkCreateRayTracingPipelines performance with a warm pipeline cache
- Fix VK_ERROR_NATIVE_WINDOW_IN_USE_KHR reported when recreating a VkSwapchain on X11
- Fix rare device lost issue when copying to or from a 1D D24S8 image
- Fix issue that sometimes occurred when making sparse memory allocation changes on a transfer-only queue
- Fix issue with bound shader state persisting between command buffers
- Fix issue with out-of-date swapchain handling in vkWaitForPresentKHR
- Vulkan video: Correctly handle VkVideoDecodeUsageInfoKHR in the VkVideoProfileKHR pNext chain
- Vulkan video: Update VkVideoEncodeH265CapabilitiesEXT reported

NVIDIA provides full Vulkan 1.3 support and functionality on NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro graphics card with one of the following Ada Lovelace, Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal and Maxwell (first and second generation) based GPUs:

Ada Lovelace GPU Architecture

- GeForce RTX desktop: GeForce RTX 4090, GeForce RTX 4080, GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
- GeForce RTX laptop: GeForce RTX 4090, GeForce RTX 4080, GeForce RTX 4070, GeForce RTX 4060, GeForce RTX 4050
- NVIDIA RTX: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation

Ampere GPU Architecture

- GeForce RTX: GeForce RTX 3090, GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3080, GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, GeForce RTX 3070, GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, GeForce RTX 3060
- NVIDIA RTX: NVIDIA RTX A6000, NVIDIA RTX A5000, NVIDIA RTX A4000, NVIDIA RTX A2000

Turing GPU Architecture

- TITAN: NVIDIA TITAN RTX
- GeForce RTX: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2060
- GeForce GTX: GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, GeForce GTX 1650, GeForce MX250, GeForce MX230
- Quadro: Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000, Quadro RTX 5000, Quadro RTX 4000, Quadro RTX 3000, Quadro T2000, Quadro T1000

Volta GPU Architecture

- TITAN: NVIDIA TITAN V
- Quadro: Quadro GV100

Pascal GPU Architecture

- TITAN: NVIDIA TITAN Xp, NVIDIA TITAN X (Pascal)
- GeForce: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030, GeForce MX150,
- Quadro: Quadro GP100, Quadro P6000, Quadro P5200, Quadro P5000, Quadro P4200, Quadro P4000, Quadro P3200, Quadro P3000, Quadro P2200, Quadro P2000, Quadro P1000, Quadro P620, Quadro P600, Quadro P520, Quadro P500, Quadro P400

Maxwell 2 GPU Architecture

- TITAN: GeForce GTX TITAN X
- GeForce: GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce GTX 965M, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950
- Quadro: Quadro M6000 24GB, Quadro M6000, Quadro M5500, Quadro M5000, Quadro M5000M, Quadro M4000, Quadro M4000M, Quadro M3000M, Quadro M2200, Quadro M2000

Maxwell 1 GPU Architecture

- GeForce: GeForce GTX 960M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce 945M, GeForce 940MX, GeForce 930MX, GeForce 920MX, GeForce 940M, GeForce 930M, GeForce GTX 860M, GeForce GTX 850M, GeForce 845M, GeForce 840M, GeForce 830M, GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce MX130
- Quadro: Quadro M2000M, Quadro M1000M, Quadro M600M, Quadro M500M, Quadro M1200, Quadro M620, Quadro M520, Quadro K2200M, Quadro K620M

About Graphics Drivers:

While installing the graphics driver allows the system to properly recognize the chipset and the card manufacturer, updating the video driver can bring about various changes.

It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.

When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).

Therefore, get the package (extract it if necessary), run the setup, follow the on-screen instructions for a complete and successful installation, and make sure you reboot the system so that the changes take effect.

That being said, download the driver, apply it on your system, and enjoy your newly updated graphics card. Moreover, check with our website as often as possible in order to stay up to speed with the latest releases.