NVIDIA 580.94.11 Linux Driver Brings HDR Metadata Support

NVIDIA today issued the 580.94.11 driver release as their newest Vulkan beta driver for Linux customers. Most notable with this beta driver update is adding VK_EXT_hdr_metadata support.

The NVIDIA Windows driver has supported the VK_EXT_hdr_metadata extension (all the way back to 2018) and the open-source Mesa Linux drivers also supported this HDR metadata extension while only now is being enabled by the NVIDIA Linux driver. VK_EXT_hdr_metadata is used for dealing with SMPTE 2086 metadata and CATA 861.3 metadata for Vulkan swapchains.