NVIDIA 280 Linux Driver Series Becomes Official

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 280 Linux Driver Series Becomes Official

Following the 280.04 beta and 280.11 beta, NVIDIA has just made the 280 Linux driver series official with the certified release of the 280.13 build...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTc0MA

[numasan]

I don't own any "Fermi" cards yet so can't check, but does this new driver fix the crippled OpenGL performance that has been reported? Thinking specifically of Blender here.

[M1kkko]

Did I misread something here, or does the article say that the new NVIDIA driver offers new bugs?

The NVIDIA 280.13 driver offers support for new ASICs (the GeForce GTX 570M/580M), various GLX bugs, an X driver bug, new GLX protocol support, and various other fixes.

[rudl]

http://www.gpu-tech.org/content.php/...rmance-suffers

the linux driver probably adds OpenCL 1.1 too, I got massive performance drops in luxmark

[deanjo]

Did I misread something here, or does the article say that the new NVIDIA driver offers new bugs?

* Fixed a GLX bug that could cause the X server to crash when
rendering a display list using GLX indirect rendering.

* Fixed a GLX bug that could cause a hang in applications that
use X server grabs.

* Fixed an X driver bug that caused 16x8 stipple patterns to
be rendered incorrectly.