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NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51
Not long after the recent developer-focused 440.66.17 Vulkan Beta, NVIDIA have released the 450.51 Linux Beta Driver in their mainline series that's for us consumers to jump in with.
Category: NVIDIA
NVIDIA 440.66.17 Vulkan Beta Driver released
Today NVIDIA have released a fresh developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver with support for more extensions and a little performance work included.
It seems Coreboot and Open Firmware will come to System76's NVIDIA laptops
Back in April, System76 released the Lemur Pro laptop and one of the highlights was that it pulled in a lot more open source. It seems those clever engineers aren't stopping there.
NVIDIA have now formally announced the Ampere GPU architecture
Today, NVIDIA released a series of videos with CEO Jensen Huang, taking place instead of the cancelled GTC conference and the Ampere GPU architecture was revealed.
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 440.66.14 released
NVIDIA have released a brand new Vulkan Beta Driver for Linux which pulls in another Ray Tracing extension and some bug fixes.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out with some important Linux fixes
Last week NVIDIA released a new Vulkan Beta Driver which came with some issues, a new build has gone out today fixing some of the most pressing.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out - further polishing Ray Tracing support
Today NVIDIA put out a brand new Vulkan Beta driver, as they continue to expand the capabilities of Vulkan Ray Tracing with a bunch of fixes.
NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable 'Long Lived' Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton
Today, NVIDIA released an update to their stable driver series with driver version 440.82 now available in their 'Long Lived' branch.
Another new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver expands Ray Tracing support on Linux
The second update in the space of a week, NVIDIA just today put out another NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver which further expands the Ray Tracing capabilities on Linux.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out for Linux - helping DOOM Eternal on Steam Play
NVIDIA continue to fix up and improve their Linux drivers, with a brand new Vulkan Beta Driver available today.
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2 is out, boosting Vulkan and Linux support further
Over the last year or two more and more toolkits, debuggers and all sorts of handy applications for developers have expanded their Linux support and now NVIDIA are doing the same with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2020.2.
Ray Tracing comes to the Vulkan API officially with new extensions - new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta out
The Khronos Group has today announced that the cross-platform Vulkan graphics API now has official Ray Tracing support with their new provisional extensions.
NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan
With Ray Tracing becoming ever more popular, NVIDIA have written up a technical post on bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan to encourage more developers to do it.
Mesa drivers 20.0.0 released, NVIDIA also have a small Vulkan driver update out
Two bits of Linux driver news to share today, one quite big for AMD/Intel and the other on the smaller side for NVIDIA.
NVIDIA driver 440.59 released for Linux
The first stable driver release of 2020, yesterday NVIDIA put out the 440.59 driver for Linux users.
NVIDIA end updates to the 340 series legacy driver for Linux
If you have an older NVIDIA GPU, chances are you've been using the 340 legacy series. Well, NVIDIA have said that it's no longer getting updates.
Vulkan API specification 1.2 released, new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver up
Today, The Khronos Group has released the next big update the Vulkan graphics API specification with Vulkan 1.2 now available.
NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta driver out, adds a fix for DXVK
NVIDIA continue advancing their special Vulkan Beta driver, the one that gets all the upcoming features that need a little extra time to brew.
Quake II RTX updated with a new fancy Photo Mode
Lightspeed Studios and NVIDIA continue advancing Quake II RTX, which seems to be turning into an FPS playground of new features built on the classic game.
If you have an old NVIDIA 8 or 9 series GPU, there's a new Linux driver update out for you
While naturally a lot of the focus for a GPU vendor is on their latest and greatest, NVIDIA do still support many of their older GPUs on Linux.
- Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
- Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit
- VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades
- Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
- Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
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