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While NVK is closing the gap against NVIDIA's proprietary Vulkan driver — nearly matching it in Serious Sam 2017 — most newer games still show a significant performance delta. The ongoing development of the Nova kernel driver by NVIDIA and others is expected to further help NVK performance in the future. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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