If games use it, Nvidia will support it properly. While Vulkan hasn't "won" in the game space (and might not ever), SPIR-V actually already has support from Mic

If games use it, Nvidia will support it properly. While Vulkan hasn't "won" in the game space (and might not ever), SPIR-V actually already has support from Microsoft. The HLSL DXC compiler can natively output SPIR-V: https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki/SPIR%E2%80%90V-CodeGen https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/wiki/SPIR... So it's not implausible that there's a future world here where DX13 or DX14 use SPIR-V instead of DXIL. After all this makes AMD, Intel, and Nvidia's driver teams happier. Game devs also are happier as then they can ship a single precompiled shader on all platforms - PC & consoles. Microsoft's strong position with DirectX doesn't come from DXIL, but instead from making game developers happy, so SPIR-V's future could easily be very bright. And then if games are using SPIR-V for compute (and they already use GPU compute for various things), then Nvidia is absolutely going to optimize the ever leaving snot out of it. Likely even more than they do for CUDA, as gaming is by far Nvidia's largest source of revenue: https://s22.q4cdn.com/364334381/files/doc_financials/quarterly_reports/2020/Q420/Rev_by_Mkt_Qtrly_Trend_Q420.pdf https://s22.q4cdn.com/364334381/files/doc_financials/quarter...