Kepler is the NVIDIA codename of the graphics processors representing the GeForce 600 and 700 series hardware. GPUs based upon NVIDIA's Kepler architecture initially debuted in March of 2012. Kepler was succeeded by NVIDIA's Maxwell in February 2014. NVIDIA Kepler GPUs are supported under Linux by both the closed-source and open-source (Nouveau) drivers.

Kepler Articles & Reviews

NVIDIA 470 EOL Drivers For Kepler Still Obliterating Open-Source Alternative   Display Drivers   2021-06-30
GeForce GTX 650 vs. GTX 1650 Performance For Linux Gaming, Performance-Per-Watt   Graphics Cards   2019-05-15
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760/960/1060 / RTX 2060 Linux Gaming & Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2019-01-15
The GPU Compute Performance From The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To TITAN RTX   Graphics Cards   2018-12-25
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 To RTX 2080 Ti Graphics/Compute Performance   Graphics Cards   2018-09-20
September 2018 Drivers: The Current Linux Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA Kepler To Pascal vs. AMD   Display Drivers   2018-09-11
29-Way GPU Comparison On Linux From Kepler & Cypress To Today's Pascal & Vega   Linux Gaming   2018-06-01
16-Way GPU Comparison With NVIDIA GPUs Going Back To Kepler   Linux Gaming   2018-01-15
Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   2017-11-05
21-Way NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal OpenCL GPU Comparison   Graphics Cards   2017-05-31
Nouveau Re-Clocked With DRM-Next Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev vs. NVIDIA 381 Driver   Display Drivers   2017-04-27
14-Way NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal OpenGL vs. Vulkan With Mad Max On Linux   Graphics Cards   2017-03-31
14-Way NVIDIA GPU Comparison With Civilization VI On Linux   Linux Gaming   2017-02-09
Open-Source Nouveau Linux 4.10 + NvBoost vs. NVIDIA Proprietary Linux Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2017-01-07
31-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon Linux OpenGL Comparison - End-Of-Year 2016   Graphics Cards   2016-12-22
Fresh OpenCL + CUDA 8.0 Benchmarks On Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal With NVIDIA 375.10 On Ubuntu Linux   Display Drivers   2016-11-07
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev vs. NVIDIA OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2016-10-14
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs. 760 vs. 960 vs. 1060 Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2016-07-20
Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GTX To GTX 1080   Graphics Cards   2016-06-05
Fresh Mesa 11.3-devel RadeonSI Tests On Ubuntu 16.04 vs. NVIDIA's 364.19 Driver   Display Drivers   2016-04-28
Nouveau Kepler On Linux 4.6 vs. NVIDIA's 364 Proprietary Driver   Display Drivers   2016-04-04
Nouveau Kepler vs. Maxwell Performance On Linux 4.6 + Mesa 11.3-dev   Display Drivers   2016-03-30
NVIDIA GeForce vs. Radeon/AMDGPU OpenGL Performance On Ubuntu 16.04   Display Drivers   2016-03-18
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710: Trying The Newest Sub-$50 GPU On Linux   Graphics Cards   2016-02-06
How Nouveau Compares To NVIDIA's Linux Driver When Kepler Re-Clocking Works   Display Drivers   2015-11-27
Early Radeon vs. Nouveau OpenGL Tests On Linux 4.4   Display Drivers   2015-11-23
Nouveau Kepler Re-Clocking Is Working A Lot Better On Linux 4.4   Display Drivers   2015-11-20
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 950 Is A $150+ Bargain For Linux Gamers   Graphics Cards   2015-08-20
Linux Benchmarks Of NVIDIA's Early 2015 GeForce Line-Up   Display Drivers   2015-01-23
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980: The Best GPU For Linux Gamers   Graphics Cards   2014-09-30
Even With Re-Clocking, Nouveau Remains Behind NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver   Display Drivers   2014-07-28
Trying Out The Jetson TK1, NVIDIA's High-End Tegra K1 Board   Computers   2014-04-30
NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler GPUs Are The Best Bet For Ubuntu 14.04 Nouveau   Display Drivers   2014-04-06
NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series: Stick To The Binary Linux Drivers   Display Drivers   2014-03-21
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti "Maxwell"   Graphics Cards   2014-02-18
NVIDIA Is Still Killing AMD Over Linux OpenGL Performance   Display Drivers   2014-01-20
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Works On Some GeForce 700 GPUs   Display Drivers   2013-11-27
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 13.10   Graphics Cards   2013-11-25
Open-Source Nouveau Driver Remains Slow For NVIDIA's Fermi, Kepler   Display Drivers   2013-10-29
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 On Linux   Graphics Cards   2013-10-23
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings   Display Drivers   2013-04-23
Five-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison On Nouveau   Display Drivers   2013-01-11
NVIDIA GeForce 600 "Kepler" On Open-Source: It's Uselessly Slow   Display Drivers   2013-01-08
NVIDIA Anti-Aliasing Benchmark Comparison   Display Drivers   2012-12-21
The Evolution Of NVIDIA's Kepler Driver Performance   Display Drivers   2012-07-17
NVIDIA Anti-Aliasing Performance Under Linux   Display Drivers   2012-06-24
NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04   Graphics Cards   2012-05-16
Running The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 On An Open-Source Driver   Display Drivers   2012-04-26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" On Linux   Graphics Cards   2012-04-17

Kepler Linux & Open-Source News

Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers   Red Hat   2023-10-11
Counter-Strike 2 Now Available With An Initial Linux Build   Valve   2023-09-27
NVK Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Progresses On Running Some Games   Nouveau   2023-06-26
It's Recommended To Avoid Using The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver On Linux 6.3   Nouveau   2023-06-14
NVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver Development Progressing On Nearly Decade Old GTX 980M   Nouveau   2023-05-08
NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs   NVIDIA   2022-08-09
NVIDIA 515.65.01 Linux Driver Released With Fixes   NVIDIA   2022-08-02
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.20   Nouveau   2022-07-13
Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver - Vulkan And/Or New Driver   Nouveau   2022-05-31
Nouveau Gallium3D Begins Landing RTX 30 "Ampere" GPU Driver Code   Nouveau   2022-05-31
NVIDIA Updates Legacy 470 & 390 Series Linux Drivers, New Bump For 510 Series   NVIDIA   2022-05-16
NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support   NVIDIA   2022-04-11
RISC-V With Linux 5.16 Enabling Open-Source NVIDIA Driver As Part Of Default Kernel   RISC-V   2021-11-13
NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16   NVIDIA   2021-10-10
Intel Crocus, Linux 5.13, Other Vendor Happenings Made For An Exciting June   Phoronix   2021-06-30
NVIDIA Posts 470 Linux Driver Beta With Better Wayland Support, DLSS + Improved PRIME   NVIDIA   2021-06-22
NVIDIA Confirms Plans To Drop "Kepler" GPU Driver Support   NVIDIA   2021-06-11
NVIDIA 470 Series To Be The Last Supporting GTX 600/700 Series Kepler   NVIDIA   2021-05-21
NVIDIA Now Allows GeForce GPU Pass-Through For Windows VMs On Linux   NVIDIA   2021-03-30
NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility   NVIDIA   2021-03-18
Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing   Nouveau   2021-01-12
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations   NVIDIA   2020-09-15
ASUS Releases Graphics Card That Could Actually Be Great For Open-Source NVIDIA Fans   Nouveau   2020-04-13
NVIDIA Posts Firmware Needed For Open-Source GeForce 16 Series Acceleration   Nouveau   2020-02-19
Nouveau Gallium3D Finally Seeing Mesa Shader Disk Cache For Faster Game Load Times   Nouveau   2020-02-17
NVIDIA Launches Open-Source Video Processing Framework For Python   NVIDIA   2019-12-16
NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020   NVIDIA   2019-12-05
The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs   Nouveau   2019-11-24
NVIDIA DP MST Audio To Begin Working With The Linux 5.5 Kernel   NVIDIA   2019-11-21
NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To Help Open-Source Drivers   NVIDIA   2019-08-07
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3   Nouveau   2019-07-19
NVIDIA Firmware Blobs Get Updated To Help Some Pascal GPUs With Nouveau   Nouveau   2019-06-07
Intel UHD Graphics 630 With Gallium3D Yields Roughly Radeon HD 5750 Linux Performance   Intel   2019-05-15
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.2   Nouveau   2019-05-01
NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support Nears Retirement, Starting With Notebook GPUs   NVIDIA   2019-03-09
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch Today - Supported By The NVIDIA Linux Driver, No Nouveau Yet   NVIDIA   2019-02-22
Linux 5.0, RTX 2060, ZoL & Other Topics Dominating Discussions For January   Phoronix   2019-02-01
NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some Open-Source Milestones, But Not Many   NVIDIA   2018-12-30
Nouveau Picks Up NV_shader_atomic_float For Fermi/Kepler GPUs   Nouveau   2018-12-27
It Looks Like We Won't See An Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver This Year (Nouveau)   Nouveau   2018-12-06
Feral Announces Linux System Requirements For Vulkan-Powered Total War: WARHAMMER II   Linux Gaming   2018-11-12
System76 Unveils Thelio "Open" Desktops With Intel/AMD CPU Options, NVIDIA/Radeon GPUs   Hardware   2018-11-01
Nouveau DRM Tree Sees Updates Ahead Of Linux 4.20   Nouveau   2018-10-05
NVIDIA Publishes Signed Volta Firmware Images For Enabling Open-Source Driver Support   NVIDIA   2018-10-01
Speck, Steam Play, RTX 2080 & Linux Kernel Activity Dominated The Scene In September   Phoronix   2018-10-01
Q3 Was Exciting For Linux Enthusiasts With Threadripper, Mesa, Steam Play & Kernel Drama   Phoronix   2018-09-28
Nouveau Developers Begin Reverse-Engineering NVIDIA Turing Driver Support   NVIDIA   2018-09-20
NVIDIA Firmware Blobs Get Switched Up For Helping Pascal-Powered Laptops With Nouveau   Nouveau   2018-09-06
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Series Expectations On Linux   NVIDIA   2018-09-03
Nouveau Changes Queue Ahead Of Linux 4.19   Nouveau   2018-07-19
Windows Comparisons, Linux 4.18, Wine & Alternate CPUs Were Very Popular In June   Phoronix   2018-07-01
Open-Source NVIDIA Volta GV100 Support Queued For Linux 4.18   Nouveau   2018-05-18
NVIDIA Preparing To Drop Fermi Support From Their Mainline Drivers   NVIDIA   2018-04-07
NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Extensions Coming Soon, OptiX API Unveiled   NVIDIA   2018-04-02
Nouveau Is On The Verge Of Having Basic Compute Support   Nouveau   2018-03-24
NVIDIA's Jetson TK1 Is Being EOL'ed Next Month   Hardware   2018-03-21
With Vulkan 1.1 It's Technically Possible To Write A Pure Wayland Compositor   Vulkan   2018-03-08
Nouveau Gets ARB_bindless_texture Support For Maxwell & Newer   Nouveau   2018-02-18
Nouveau Updates Submitted For Linux 4.16, Bringing GP108 & Kepler Clock Gating   Nouveau   2018-02-09
Kepler Clock Gating Queued In Nouveau DRM, Lowering Power Use   Nouveau   2018-02-04
Updated Clock-Gating Comes For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs On Nouveau   Nouveau   2018-01-26
Red Hat Developer Manages Full Clock-Gating For Kepler With Nouveau   Nouveau   2018-01-15
Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D Lands OpenGL Bindless Texture Support   Nouveau   2018-01-07
The Most Popular Articles On Phoronix In 2017   Phoronix   2017-12-31
Struggling Open-Source Support, Pascal Rocking & Other NVIDIA Linux Topics Of 2017   NVIDIA   2017-12-16
Features You Won't Find With The Mainline Linux 4.15 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-11-28
NVIDIA 387.34 Linux Driver Brings Vulkan Fixes   NVIDIA   2017-11-24
GeForce GTX 900 Series Re-Clocking Patches Updated By Karol Herbst   Nouveau   2017-11-17
Nouveau DRM Changes Queued For Linux 4.15   Nouveau   2017-11-03
Feral Releases F1 2017 For Linux, More Details On The Vulkan Driver Requirements   Linux Gaming   2017-11-02
Etnaviv Gallium3D Driver Now Wiring Up ASTC Texture Compression   Mesa   2017-11-02
Nouveau Developers Remain Blocked By NVIDIA From Advancing Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2017-09-23
Nouveau's Meager Changes Queued Up In DRM-Next For Linux 4.14   Nouveau   2017-08-22
COMPOTE: Working On HMM/Compute For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver   Nouveau   2017-08-10
Nouveau Gets Thermal Throttling, One Step Closer For GTX 900 Re-Clocking   Nouveau   2017-07-21
Changes That You Won't Find In Linux 4.13   Linux Kernel   2017-07-14
GStreamer Adds NVDEC NVIDIA GPU Decoding Support   GNOME   2017-06-27
NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau Makes Baby Steps Towards Memory Re-Clocking   Nouveau   2017-04-11
Nouveau Gets Patches For OpenGL AZDO ARB_shader_ballot   Nouveau   2017-04-08
DRM Maintainers Are Running Out Of Time To Ship New Features For Linux 4.12   Linux Kernel   2017-04-03
Nouveau's GTX 1000 Acceleration Support Queued In DRM-Next   Nouveau   2017-03-08
Trying Nouveau With HITMAN On Linux Doesn't Get Too Far   Nouveau   2017-02-24
Ten Features You Will Not Find In The Mainline Linux 4.10 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2017-02-18
Nouveau: Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 vs. 17.1-devel OpenGL Benchmarks   Nouveau   2017-02-11
Trying Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D With Civilization 6 On Mesa 17.1   Nouveau   2017-02-10
Kabylake, GCC 7, Binary Blobs, Vulkan & Other Highlights From January   Phoronix   2017-01-31
Nouveau Patches Begin Lining Up For Linux 4.11 Kernel   Nouveau   2017-01-31
300+ OpenCL ArrayFire Benchmarks On 13 NVIDIA GPUs   NVIDIA   2017-01-23
OpenGL 4.3 Lands For Maxwell With Nouveau Gallium3D, Plus 1.5~3.5x Performance Boost   Mesa   2017-01-12
The POWER8 Libre System Looks Set To Fail, Now There's An AMD Libre System Effort   AMD   2017-01-09
OpenGL vs. Vulkan For Older NVIDIA Kepler GPUs (Early 2017)   Vulkan   2017-01-05
Linux 4.9/4.10, Solaris Rumors, Graphics Driver News Ended Out 2016   Phoronix   2017-01-02
A Green & Open Christmas: GL 4.3 For Maxwell/Pascal, Huge Maxwell Performance Boost   Nouveau   2016-12-23
Total War: WARHAMMER Linux Requirements Announced - AMD & NVIDIA GPUs   Linux Gaming   2016-11-21
Initial NVIDIA GP102 Support In Nouveau DRM   Nouveau   2016-11-08
13-Way NVIDIA OpenGL vs. Vulkan Dota 2 Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks   Vulkan   2016-11-05
OpenSUSE 42.2 RC2 Released, Disables Nouveau 3D Support By Default   SUSE   2016-11-02
Open-Source Radeon, Vulkan & Linux 4.8~4.9 Were October Hits   Phoronix   2016-11-01
Another Fun Day In Mesa Git: RADV, NVC0, RadeonSI   Mesa   2016-10-13
Nouveau NVC0 Preps For OpenGL 4.5 / GLSL 4.5   Mesa   2016-10-09
Don't Expect An Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Anytime Soon   Nouveau   2016-09-23
Linux 4.9 To Begin Landing Nouveau "Boost" Support For Faster Performance   Nouveau   2016-09-06
Eight Features You Will Not Find In The Mainline Linux 4.8 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2016-08-11
NVIDIA "OpenGL 2016" Driver Leaks Out Early, Adds GLSL SPIR-V Extension   NVIDIA   2016-07-26
Maxwell OpenGL Improvements Coming To Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-07-18
Nouveau DRM Code Updated For Linux 4.8   Nouveau   2016-07-15
NVIDIA Provides A Surprise For Pascal GPU Owners Wanting Open-Source   NVIDIA   2016-07-11
Initial Open-Source GeForce GTX 1000 "Pascal" Nouveau Driver Support   Nouveau   2016-07-08
GTK4, RX 480, GTX 1070/1080, Nextcloud & Other Popular Linux Announcements In June   Phoronix   2016-07-01
More DRM Code Gets Aligned For Linux 4.8 Via DRM-Next   Linux Kernel   2016-06-09
The 12 Big New Features Of Mesa 12.0   Mesa   2016-05-31
Fresh 10-Way GeForce Linux Benchmarks With The NVIDIA 367.18 Driver   NVIDIA   2016-05-30
Nouveau NVC0 & RadeonSI Now Officially Expose OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2016-05-27
Some Early NVIDIA Performance Figures For The Newest Linux Game: F1 2015   NVIDIA   2016-05-26
OpenGL 4.5 For The Intel Mesa Driver May Be Imminent   Intel   2016-05-25
Multiple OpenGL 4.x Adjustments Hits Mainline Mesa   Mesa   2016-05-24
Nouveau Fermi Gets OpenGL 4.2 Support Flipped On   Nouveau   2016-05-21
Mesa 12.0 Might Be A Delayed Release This Summer With OpenGL 4.5 Support   Mesa   2016-05-15
Six Interesting Features Of The Linux 4.6 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2016-05-15
Patches Published For Taking Nouveau Fermi Support Up To OpenGL 4.2   Nouveau   2016-05-14
Nouveau NVC0 Compute Shader Support Is On For GTK110+ GPUs   Nouveau   2016-05-10
See How Your Linux GPU Compares To Various GeForce GPUs With NVIDIA 364.19   NVIDIA   2016-04-27
Nouveau NVC0 Appears Ready With OpenGL 4.2 Support For Select NVIDIA GPUs   Nouveau   2016-04-26
Over/Under Volting & Clocking Improvements Under Review For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-04-19
Here's An Ubuntu Kernel Build If You Want To Help Test Nouveau Boost Support   Nouveau   2016-04-17
OpenGL Compute Shader Support Lands For Nouveau GK104 & GM107+   Nouveau   2016-04-01
Raspberry Pi 3, Linux 4.6 & AMDGPU Were Popular Among Our 300+ Articles This Month   Premium   2016-03-31
There Is A Steam Linux Game Where Nouveau On Kepler Is Outperforming NVIDIA's Blob   Nouveau   2016-03-31
Making It Easier To Try Out The Experimental Re-Clocking Support   Nouveau   2016-03-29
It's Easy Now Getting GeForce GTX 900 Graphics Cards Running On Open-Source Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-03-23
Wayland & X.Org Foundation Both Make It For Google Summer of Code 2016   Wayland   2016-03-01
Vulkan Completely Dominated This Month   Phoronix   2016-02-29
Patches Published For Nouveau Compute Support On Kepler   Nouveau   2016-02-27
Mesa NVC0 Lands Fermi Compute Shaders   Nouveau   2016-02-21
SteamOS Already Adds In NVIDIA Vulkan Support   Valve   2016-02-18
Here Are Your Vulkan Download Links   Vulkan   2016-02-16
The Dota 2 Performance On The Latest NVIDIA Linux Graphics Drivers   Linux Gaming   2016-02-14
More Nouveau GL4 Feature Patches Published   Nouveau   2016-02-13
Compute Shader Code Begins Landing For Gallium3D   Mesa   2016-02-13
The GTX 750 Series Still Has Lots Of Problems With Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-09
DRI3 Still Appears To Be Causing Problems For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-09
4K HDMI Appears To Work Much Better With Nouveau On Linux 4.5   Nouveau   2016-02-08
This Low-End NVIDIA Card Has The Potential To Perform Competitively Using Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-07
Compute Shader Support Patches For NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-06
Core Compute Shader Support Under Review For Gallium3D   Nouveau   2016-01-24
PCI Express Speed Changes Still Being Worked On For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-01-01
The Open-Source Linux Letdowns of 2015   Free Software   2015-12-24
NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation   NVIDIA   2015-12-22
Nouveau Support For ETC2/ASTC Texture Compression   Nouveau   2015-12-19
Improved Kepler Performance Metrics For Nouveau   Nouveau   2015-12-05