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Explore the latest developments in Nouveau and NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) in this 25-minute conference talk from XDC 2025. Learn about significant advances made over the past year, including the achievement of Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK, successful Vulkan conformance across multiple NVIDIA GPU generations (Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, and Kepler), and the strategic transition to using Zink for OpenGL implementation. Discover the technical progress, challenges overcome, and future roadmap for the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver stack as Faith Ekstrand provides insights into the ongoing development efforts and plans for continued advancement in GPU driver technology.