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1,063 NVIDIA open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

NVIDIA's Graphics Driver Will Run Into Problems With Linux 5.3 On IBM POWER

For those using the NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver on an IBM POWER system, it could be a while before seeing Linux 5.3+ kernel support. Upstream has removed code depended upon by the NVIDIA binary driver for supporting the POWER architecture and as is the case they don't care that it will break NVIDIA driver support since it's binary/out-of-tree.

13 July 2019 - NVIDIA POWER Driver Problem - 72 Comments
NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 2060 / 2070 / 2080 SUPER GPUs

Following weeks of leaks and other rumors, NVIDIA today finally lifted the lid on their new "SUPER" line-up with the revised RTX 2060 / RTX 2070 / RTX 2080 graphics cards with more competitive value especially in light of AMD's Radeon RX 5700 series offerings coming to market next week.

2 July 2019 - NVIDIA SUPER - 26 Comments
Developers Devising Plan To Ship Newer NVIDIA Drivers On Ubuntu Stable Releases

Currently NVIDIA's packaged drivers on Ubuntu can get a bit stale on Ubuntu stable releases since they aren't updated in-step with the latest driver releases. But a new stable release update (SRU) policy/exception similar to the Firefox approach is being made for Ubuntu so that new releases will end up working their way into currently supported Ubuntu series.

17 June 2019 - NVIDIA SRU To Ubuntu Stable - 16 Comments
NVIDIA Releasing Quake II RTX Open-Source In Two Weeks

NVIDIA announced the EGX platform from Computex 2019 for accelerating AI at the edge. But if that news doesn't interest you, they also announced in June will be the formal Quake II RTX ray-traced game port release and will be open-source.

27 May 2019 - Quake II RTX - 21 Comments
NVIDIA Adds Vulkan Support To Nsight Systems

Nsight Systems, NVIDIA's proprietary cross-platform tool providing a timeline view of system resource analysis and other metrics while running GPU compute/graphics workloads, now can handle the Vulkan API.

24 April 2019 - Nsight Systems + Vulkan - Add A Comment
NVIDIA DXR Ray-Tracing Support For Pascal GPUs Does Include Vulkan Support

As has been expected the past several weeks, NVIDIA rolled out a driver update today providing DXR ray-tracing support going back to non-RTX Pascal GPUs. While NVIDIA has mostly been trumpeting the DirectX 12 ray-tracing abilities now with these older GPUs lacking RTX cores, their work does include enabling of Vulkan VK_NV_ray_tracing support on these graphics processors.

11 April 2019 - VK_NV_ray_tracing - 3 Comments
NVIDIA Confirms It's Acquiring Mellanox

While earlier this month it looked like Intel was going to be the likely suitor to Mellanox Technologies, NVIDIA has managed to edge out Intel and the others bidding for the networking chip provider.

11 March 2019 - NVIDIA + Mellanox - 38 Comments
NVIDIA Has Been Working On A New Fortran "f18" Compiler It Wants To Contribute To LLVM

NVIDIA for a while now has been working on the Flang compiler as an open-source Fortran compiler built atop the LLVM infrastructure and inspired by the Clang C/C++ compiler front-end. Recently though they began a ground-up rewrite of Flang using modern C++ and that effort is now known as f18 and they are looking to mainline this new Fortran compiler front-end.

1 March 2019 - NVIDIA F18 - 14 Comments
VDPAU Library 1.2 Released With HEVC 4:4:4 Support

While NVIDIA may be divesting from the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) in favor of their NVENC/NVDEC APIs that are part of the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK, they do continue maintaining the VDPAU library (libvdpau) at least for the time being.

28 February 2019 - libvdpau 1.2 - 2 Comments
Linux-Firmware Adds Signed NVIDIA Firmware Binaries For Turing's Type-C Controller
Linux-Firmware Adds Signed NVIDIA Firmware Binaries For Turing's Type-C Controller

While we are still waiting on NVIDIA to publish the signed firmware images for Turing GPUs in order to bring-up 3D hardware acceleration on the GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics cards with the open-source Nouveau driver, today they did post the signed firmware image files for their Type-C controller found on these new GPUs.

13 February 2019 - Type-C Firmware Blobs - 8 Comments
NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 9.0 Officially Released

Since the start of December the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 9.0 update has been available in the company's early access program while now this SDK with the NVENC/NVDEC APIs has rolled out as stable.

12 February 2019 - NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 9.0 - 2 Comments
NVIDIA's VDPAU Picks Up HEVC 4:4:4 Support

While NVIDIA is no longer active promoting their Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix "VDPAU" in favor of the cross-platform, CUDA-focused Video Codec SDK with NVENC/NVDEC, the VDPAU library still sees some rare activity from time to time.

11 February 2019 - NVIDIA VDPAU - 9 Comments
NVIDIA Linux Beta Rolling Out "G-SYNC Compatible" FreeSync Monitor Support

Earlier this month at CES was the surprise announcement that NVIDIA would be effectively rolling out FreeSync display support for Pascal GPUs and newer with forthcoming driver updates. There's been that support on Windows while beginning today that tear-free, gaming-focused display tech will also be working on Linux.

30 January 2019 - NVIDIA 418.30 - 19 Comments

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