Nvidia 580 series of drivers will be the last to support GPUs based on the Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures.
Unix graphics feature deprecation schedule
Open Linux Kernel Modules Installed by Default Starting in the release 560 series, it will be recommended to use the open flavor of NVIDIA Linux Kernel Modules wherever possible (Turing or later GPUs, or Ada or later when using GPU virtualization).NVIDIA Developer Forums
Ulu-Mulu-no-die
in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •Of all the titles you could choose ...
The article is interesting in that it talks about pushing towards open versions of kernel modules, instead of legacy ones, and of much broader scope that the literal 2 lines you chose as title.
Why not keeping the original?
MazonnaCara89
in reply to Ulu-Mulu-no-die • • •Norah (pup/it/she)
in reply to Ulu-Mulu-no-die • • •That doesn't mean it's good they're deprecating cards to do it. They were still selling GT1030s new until relatively recently, and the GTX1080 is a perfectly workable card.
If you think open versions are cool, how about them just open-sourcing the Maxwell & Pascal drivers? Oh, that's right, they won't because the "special sauce" is in the driver, not the card BIOS like it is for the Turing & up families.
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in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •Maxwell
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in reply to DaPorkchop_ • • •WuxinGoat
in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •(Perhaps asking silly questions in order to understand, I've never totally understood the nvidia driver numbers and what they mean, i just kinda installed some and they seem to work and i just forgot about them, i can run the modest games i like)
So just for clarity the 580 drivers will support my 980Ti right? How long will those be supported for? Will there come a time that i will not be able to properly use this card with linux and run (modest games) games on it?
MazonnaCara89
in reply to WuxinGoat • • •The 980Ti as stated by the Dirk's comment use Maxwell architecture, I'm not able to find any end of support date on the site, so I'm not sure when they will drop support.
Unfortunately you don't need to wait to see this happens, because it's already happening right now, indeed dx12 games have a lot of problems running on this older cards on linux, and I myself experienced this with my 1060 first with cyberpunk 2077 and after that with resident evil 2 remastered.
As even stated by doitsujin (dxvk creator):
Source: github.com/HansKristian-Work/v…
Question about poor performance in Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon Zero Dawn (d3d12) on older Nvidia cards
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in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •Ah thanks for the reply. That is a shame about DX12, i must have not tried any of these cos i've found all games i pick run great (i mostly play 2D non intensive indie games). I did play some Death Stranding and was very surprised by how well it ran!
I'll go for AMD if i can next time (i've been doing well getting hand me downs from friends who love getting the latest stuff for themselves!)
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in reply to 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 • • •The real reason is planned obsolescence. Your old GPU working is bad for NVidia because it means you're not buying a new one from them.
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in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •obsoleteacct
in reply to MazonnaCara89 • • •I was just thinking, I wish a trillion dollar company would figure out a way to turn a few billion dollars worth of usable hardware into e-waste today.
Hopefully people dumping these cards drives down the used prices.