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NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta


NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

Besides the R580 legacy driver, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 "Maxwell1" GPUs at least enjoy pretty decent support on the Nouveau driver stack and don't require any closed-source and signed microcode for operation so you can also enjoy GPU re-clocking there. It's with the GeForce GTX 900 series and later where the signed firmware requirement was introduced and where power management / re-clocking became more challenging for the Nouveau driver stack. If their usual release timings hold, the NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series will likely be in beta soon and the stable version out later in the year.

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