NVIDIA 346.16 Beta Adds VP8 Decoding, NVENC, GTK3 & Much More

Among the many great changes for the NVIDIA 346.16 release include:
- VDPAU VP8 video stream decoding support for the latest-generation Maxwell GPUs that add VP8 decode support.
- Support for changing the operating voltage of NVIDIA GeForce 400 "Fermi" GPUs and newer. This can be done as part of the CoolBits re-clocking from the NVIDIA Linux control panel to have user control over the GPU's voltage.
- New accelerated RENDER formats support.
- Support for the EGL_EXT_device_base, EGL_EXT_platform_device, and EGL_EXT_output_base extensions.
- Support for the GeForce GTX 970M and GTX 980M Maxwell mobile graphics processors.
- The NVIDIA Settings utility has been ported to GTK+ 3 when available but otherwise will maintain GTK2 support.
- Faster NVIDIA Linux driver installation using parallel make jobs for building the NVIDIA kernel modules.
- GLSL compiler bug fixes.
- Rendering corruption fixes.
- Much faster OpenGL FBO performance.
- Various other bug fixes.
- Support for the latest Linux kernel releases (Linux 3.17~3.18)
Find out more details via this NVIDIA DevTalk post. Stay tuned for NVIDIA 346.16 Beta graphics driver benchmarks at Phoronix. It's great to see NVIDIA putting out feature-rich NVIDIA Linux driver updates while there hasn't been any AMD Catalyst Linux graphics driver update in quite some time now, arguably due to work on the next-generation "AMDGPU" driver that will benefit the Radeon R9 285 "Tonga" hardware and newer.
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