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NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2020

NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)

By Liam Dawe, 17 Sep 2020

As if you forgot, right? Today, the real next generation in gaming begins, with the release of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 as the first in the desktop Ampere architecture.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW on Linux can run without user agent spoofing in a browser

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2020

Looks like NVIDIA might be ready for the next push in cloud gaming with their GeForce NOW service, as it's even easier to run it on Linux.

NVIDIA confirms $40 billion deal to buy Arm

By Liam Dawe, 14 Sep 2020

Huge industry news to mention this morning! NVIDIA has confirmed they're buying Arm for $40 billion.

NVIDIA have a small new Vulkan Beta Driver bug-fix release up

By Liam Dawe, 10 Sep 2020

Yesterday, September 9, NVIDIA released a new update to their Vulkan Beta Driver series to clean up some lingering bugs found. One of which should help Wine.

NVIDIA announce the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 with 2nd generation RTX

By Liam Dawe, 1 Sep 2020

Today the 'Ultimate Countdown' from NVIDIA ended with the announcement of the RTX 3090, RTX 3080 and the RTX 3070, all of them being absolute monsters with 2nd generation RTX.

NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'

By Liam Dawe, 24 Aug 2020

Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.

NVIDIA driver 450.66 released for Linux, includes a useful Vulkan sync fix

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2020

More NVIDIA news for you today, not only is it possible to use GeForce NOW on Linux in the browser, we also have a new stable NVIDIA driver release.

NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds Chromebook support, so you can run it on Linux too

By Liam Dawe, 18 Aug 2020

I'm sure this will excite some of our readers who are fans of game streaming: NVIDIA has added the ability to play GeForce NOW game streaming via the browser.

NVIDIA GeForce are teasing something for August 31, likely RTX 3000

By Liam Dawe, 10 Aug 2020

Ready for your next upgrade? NVIDIA think you might be and they're teasing what is most likely the GeForce RTX 3000 launch at the end of this month.

NVIDIA 450.56.02 Vulkan Beta Driver is out for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jul 2020

NVIDIA continue expanding their Linux driver support, with a fresh Vulkan Beta Driver going live today.

NVIDIA open sourced part of NVAPI SDK to aid 'Windows emulation environments'

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2020

NVIDIA sneakily put out a little open source release recently, with a part of the NVAPI SDK now under the MIT license.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 450.56.01 out, Ray Tracing and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jul 2020

Shortly after giving us a brand new stable mainline driver, the NVIDIA driver team have released a new developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

NVIDIA 450.57 is out for Linux with DLSS and NGX, Image Sharpening plus more

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jul 2020

NVIDIA today just released a big new stable driver for Linux with 450.57. It pulls in a whole bunch of big features from the recent 450.51 Beta.

Oryx Pro is the first System76 laptop with Coreboot, Open Controller Firmware and NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, 25 Jun 2020

System76 have today revealed a refreshed Oryx Pro laptop. The first to come from System76 that features both their System76 Open Firmware, System76 Embedded Controller Firmware and NVIDIA together.

NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51

By Liam Dawe, 24 Jun 2020

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.

NVIDIA 440.66.17 Vulkan Beta Driver released

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2020

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

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2020

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.