RFE: update Jetson Vulkan driver to include fp16 support

JetPack 4.2 includes a rather old 1.1.70 spec Vulkan driver that’s missing critical features like support for fp16 (VK_KHR_shader_float16_int8) and other more recent extensions aggressively tracked by NVIDIA in their desktop Vulkan driver.

Could you please update the Vulkan driver?

Along with CUDA, Vulkan “compute” is rapidly becoming another way of delivering awesome compute applications on NVIDIA GPUs.

Hi allanmac,

Yes, we’re planning to update the Vulkan, even can get some of the new extensions enabled, the efforts are under triage, currently I don’t have the ETA yet, please stay tuned.

Thanks

I’m looking forward to the update since fp16 support and other extensions can really help demonstrate the Nano’s performance.

Any news on this topic?

Hi allanmac,

From what I can saw now, it’s targeting to have the new version at the next release.

Thanks