Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 18 September 2026 at 04:13 PM EDT. Add A Comment Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API.
- ▪Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 18 September 2026 at 04:13 PM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year.
- ▪For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API.
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Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan Written by Michael Larabel in Valve on 18 September 2026 at 04:13 PM EDT. Add A Comment Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API. While Mesa does have the Freedreno Gallium3D driver as a native OpenGL driver for Qualcomm Adreno graphics, Valve decided to go with Zink for the Steam Frame for that generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team and one of the lead Zink developers confirmed the driver situation today in a blog post.
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