A NVIDIA Engineer In His Spare Time Wrote A Vulkan Driver That Works On Older Raspberry Pi - Can Even Play vkQuake3

The Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and even the Raspberry Pi Zero can now see Vulkan support via a new unofficial "RPi-VK-Driver" that is offering even better performance than the Broadcom OpenGL driver.

Shows again that often OEMs lack the will to really push their older hardware. We see the same with phones where OEMs stop supporting updates to older models, yet we see that under LineageOS those same old phones can run the very latest versions of Android. I'm just thankful for open source every day as it keeps giving us options and choices.

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