Nvidia 367.27 Video Driver Finally Brings GeForce GTX 1080/1070 Support to Linux

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, June 13, 2016, Nvidia has had the great pleasure of releasing a new long-lived graphics driver for Unix platforms, including GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris operating systems.

Nvidia 367.27 is now the latest and most advanced version of the video driver for Linux, BSD, and Solaris platforms, promising to finally implement support for the recently unveiled Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 GPUs (Graphics Processing Units).

However, it appears that GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 GPU support is available only for 32-bit, 64-bit, and 32-bit ARM GNU/Linux platforms, as well as 64-bit and 32-bit FreeBSD systems. The Solaris version of the graphics driver has not received support for the new Nvidia graphics cards mentioned above.

VDPAU Feature Set H has been added to the Nvidia VDPAU driver

There are many other interesting improvements implemented in today’s Nvidia 367.27 long-lived graphics driver for Unix platforms besides support for… (read more)

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