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The R470 version of the Linux graphics driver from Nvidia will last for the last time support graphics cards from the GeForce GTX 600 series (test) and GeForce GTX 700 (test) based on the Kepler GPU architecture, which was used for the first time in 2012 and was efficient at the time, which the extremely thirsty and much criticized Fermi generation followed.
Like the ones on Linux and FOSS specialized website Phoronix first reported, the two generations with the GeForce GTX 680 as well as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and the first GeForce GTX Titan (test) at the top with the release 470 (“R470”) are supported for the last time by Nvidia’s official graphics driver for Linux . This in turn comes from an update of the CUDA documentation emerged.
Release 470 supports Kepler under Linux for the last time (Image: Nvidia)
As a so-called Long Term Support Branch (“LTSB”), the expected release 470 will receive support from Nvidia until mid-2024, but new releases will only support Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing and Ampere.
The free open source driver is an alternative Nouveau which also supports the Kepler generation.
Update 09/03/2021 1:33 p.m.
With the GeForce 510.06, Nvidia distributes for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Windows 10 for its Insider Program a driver of the 500 generation for the first timewhich can no longer be installed on GPUs with Kepler architecture without INF intervention.
As StefanG3D in the Forum of LaptopVideo2Go notes, the driver components required by Kepler seem to be basically still included, an installation on Kepler is theoretically still possible. CUDA is available as of 11.6 (ampere), so does not yet bring the CUDA Model 12 expected with Lovelace.
The drivers currently officially distributed by Nvidia come from the 470 series, which is officially the last for Kepler GPUs. It remains to be seen whether the public driver will also switch directly from the 470 series to the 510 series.
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