Nvidia's open source drivers only support the company's Turing-based GPUs and newer, including the GeForce GTX 1600 series, the RTX 2000 and 3000 series, and Quadro workstation GPUs based on the ...

For Linux gamers, the news of open-source Nvidia GPU drivers is sure to be music to the ears, and it could eventually entice Windows 11 users to jump ship. After all, ...

Switching to open-source GPU kernel modules helps Nvidia improve integration with the Linux operating system. It also allows developers to debug, integrate, and contribute to enhancing the drivers.

The big picture: Nvidia first released an open-source Linux GPU kernel driver in 2022 for cards based on the Turing architecture and newer. The company has since taken significant strides towards ...

Well, that all ends now, because NVIDIA has announced it will open-source the kernel portion of its graphics drivers. To be clear, there are huge swaths of NVIDIA's graphics drivers that are ...

Open sauce as far as the eye can seeNvidia is ready to fully transition to an open-source GPU kernel with the upcoming R560 drivers. For those who came in late, in 2022 Nvidia started to support ...

In an unprecedented move, Silicon Titan Nvidia has made the GPU kernel drivers for Linux open-source, paving the way for wider adoption of team green’s hardware beyond Windows.

At this point the open source driver is still in its early stages. There’s basic support for 2D graphics acceleration, but 3D graphics support is still on the horizon. Support Liliputing ...

What this means is that it's continuing the 2022 move to open source its graphics drivers. As we reported at the time, some observers said this wasn't quite as open as it sounded.

I suspect you meant “a GPU with open source drivers”. He could have used something with a Mali GPU that has open drivers but I guess the openness of the of the rest of the i.mx6 won him over.

Linux graphics system contributor Timur Kristóf offered one reason: “The main concern is usually that competitors can glean “trade secrets” from open source drivers or other implementation ...

I'll say it like I always do. There really isn't a need for purely open source GPU drivers. I know some die-hards want to act like it is something super important, but beyond basic stuff to make ...