NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat 16 Support

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat 16 Support

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat 16 Support

NVIDIA recently published beta drivers that introduce the recently released VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 extension in Vulkan 1.4.311 build. This extension allows for Brain Float BF16 operations within shaders in conjunction with the SPV_KHR_bfloat16 extension from SPIR-V. BFloat16 extensions should prove particularly useful for modern GPUs and software supporting Vulkan-accelerated machine learning / AI.