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While there's no set date for when the NVIDIA 580 driver series will land for Linux, as NVIDIA don't have a public release schedule, they've now confirmed the 580 series will be the last supported for GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal and Volta architectures.
So with that in mind you're looking at various cards across the GeForce 700 series, GeForce 900 series and GeForce 10 series. The cards should still keep running for quite some time after NVIDIA move on from the 580 series, but eventually you'll notice issues with newer Linux kernels, games and applications.
Hopefully the open source Mesa drivers like NVK and Zink will continue to improve. Back in April, Collabora did announce these three architectures hit Vulkan 1.4 support for NVK.
The most recent driver releases were 575.64 and 570.169 released June 17th.
Source: NVIDIA
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RussianNeuroMancer 5 days ago
What is the status of reclocking of this generations with open source kernel modules? Did Nvidia opened up enough for these cards to run at full power instead of the lowest clocks like it used to be with nouveau and the previous generations of Nvidia GPUs?
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Pyrate 5 days ago
Is this Linux only, what about Windows ?
Found out it's both.
Last edited by Pyrate on 1 Jul 2025 at 10:38 am UTC
Found out it's both.
Last edited by Pyrate on 1 Jul 2025 at 10:38 am UTC
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Sadly, these are the cards that are still restricted to slowest clock speeds. Unless Nvidia releases a PMU firmware for em, nothing will improve when it comes to using these cards with Nouveau/NVK.
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Sadly, these are the cards that are still restricted to slowest clock speeds.As far as I know the main issue isn't that we can't reclock the GPU (I some where heard that either the 9xx or the 10xx series can be reclocked) but that we can't change the voltage which makes the reclocking meaningless.
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As far as I know the main issue isn't that we can't reclock the GPU (I some where heard that either the 9xx or the 10xx series can be reclocked) but that we can't change the voltage which makes the reclocking meaningless.
IIRC, the problem was controlling the fan itself. If it can be controlled separately, like in a laptop or something, it could work.
I roughly remember a Nouveau dev running Hollow Knight smoothly on one of these "non-reclockable" GPUs that way.
The overall idea is the same though. Nouveau devs cannot control the parts they need to control to run these cards faster.
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mr-victory 5 days ago
10xx still covers around %10 of Steam survey and is more than enough for some people. They got the cut too early and new Mesa drivers can't properly support them due to no GSP.
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Eike 5 days ago
10xx still covers around %10 of Steam survey and is more than enough for some people. They got the cut too early and new Mesa drivers can't properly support them due to no GSP.
They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.
(It gets closer to my GTX 1660S though...)
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CatKiller 5 days ago
They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.
And the 580 branch will be carried in distro repositories for a very long time, just like all the other legacy branches.
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Caldathras 5 days ago
I have a Pascal GPU. I knew it had to happen eventually. At least we're getting some decent advance warning. It has been nice having a GPU under active driver support for a while...
I really hope that Nvidia hands over the support for these GPUs to the NVK team and does whatever's necessary to open up full access to these chips as well. If they're not going to support them, then at least give the community what it needs to support them in Nvidia's place.
I know, I'm not going to hold my breath but a guy can hope...
I really hope that Nvidia hands over the support for these GPUs to the NVK team and does whatever's necessary to open up full access to these chips as well. If they're not going to support them, then at least give the community what it needs to support them in Nvidia's place.
I know, I'm not going to hold my breath but a guy can hope...
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Pikolo 5 days ago
Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal? Apparently it's Turing, so I get to avoid the end of support for now
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CatKiller 5 days ago
Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.
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Cyba.Cowboy 5 days ago
They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.
That's not what this article says though... It explicitly states that NVIDIA will be ending driver support for the aforementioned cards.
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denyasis 4 days ago
Glad it's the series! I have a 1070 and when in built it 6 years ago, I was expecting to keep it for 8-10 years.. oh well. It still runs everything I want to play (and probably almost everything on the market). I guess I should research AMD's offerings and see what's out there. Hopefully nothing too expensive, lol!
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Phlebiac 4 days ago
A little more info in the Phoronix article (though much of it was covered in the comments already):
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW
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mi1stormilst 4 days ago
When the cheapest graphics card in my house cost $329.00 RTX 3060 8GB. Go back a few generations prior and the cheapest graphics card in my house was $100.00. I don't want to spend any more money on new graphics cards.
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Caldathras 4 days ago
@Cyba.Cowboy
You might want to reread the second paragraph or check out the Nvidia link. Both say that the upcoming 580 series will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs. It's not happening immediately.
@mi1stormilst
Or, in my case -- since I game on a laptop -- I don't want to to spend any more money on a new laptop ...
Last edited by Caldathras on 2 Jul 2025 at 4:13 pm UTC
You might want to reread the second paragraph or check out the Nvidia link. Both say that the upcoming 580 series will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs. It's not happening immediately.
@mi1stormilst
Or, in my case -- since I game on a laptop -- I don't want to to spend any more money on a new laptop ...
Last edited by Caldathras on 2 Jul 2025 at 4:13 pm UTC
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Eike 3 days ago
That's not what this article says though... It explicitly states that NVIDIA will be ending driver support for the aforementioned cards.
I actually took what I said from the article. :)
..."they've now confirmed the 580 series will be the last supported for GPUs based on"...
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