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Fermi Articles & Reviews

21-Way NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal OpenCL GPU Comparison   Graphics Cards   2017-05-31
The Perf-Per-Watt Of NVIDIA Fermi To Pascal, AMD R700 To Polaris With Newest Linux Drivers   Graphics Cards   2016-12-24
31-Way NVIDIA GeForce / AMD Radeon Linux OpenGL Comparison - End-Of-Year 2016   Graphics Cards   2016-12-22
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vs. 760 vs. 960 vs. 1060 Linux Performance   Graphics Cards   2016-07-20
13-Way NVIDIA OpenCL Performance & Perf-Per-Watt From Fermi To Maxwell   Graphics Cards   2016-05-13
NVIDIA's Latest Maxwell Line-Up Against AMD With Catalyst On Linux   Graphics Cards   2015-01-28
Linux Benchmarks Of NVIDIA's Early 2015 GeForce Line-Up   Display Drivers   2015-01-23
Don't Forget NVIDIA Is Dropping Pre-Fermi From Mainline   Display Drivers   2014-06-09
NVIDIA GeForce 337 Beta Driver Linux Overclocking Trials   Display Drivers   2014-04-11
NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler GPUs Are The Best Bet For Ubuntu 14.04 Nouveau   Display Drivers   2014-04-06
NVIDIA GeForce Power Efficiency: From The 6600GT To The GTX 750 Ti   Graphics Cards   2014-02-24
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
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings   Display Drivers   2013-04-23
Nouveau NVD0-Fermi Is Still A Busted Mess   Display Drivers   2011-12-21
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti   Graphics Cards   2011-10-21
Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1   Display Drivers   2011-08-05
NVIDIA GeForce GT 520   Graphics Cards   2011-07-12
Another Look At The Open-Source Nouveau With Fermi   Display Drivers   2011-04-02
NVIDIA GeForce 400 "Fermi" Series On Nouveau   Display Drivers   2011-03-29
Looking At The OpenCL Performance Of ATI & NVIDIA On Linux   Graphics Cards   2010-09-06
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 On Linux   Graphics Cards   2010-08-23

Fermi Linux & Open-Source News

AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year   Phoronix   2022-12-30
Open-Source Arc Graphics, Apple M2, Mesa GPU Drivers & Linux 6.0 Excited Readers In August   Phoronix   2022-08-31
NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs   NVIDIA   2022-08-09
Google Releases Cirq 1.0 For Quantum Programming Framework   Programming   2022-07-19
Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute Shader Support For NV50 Era GPUs   Nouveau   2021-05-01
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support Ready For Linux 5.9   Nouveau   2020-07-22
Nouveau Display CRC Support Being Firmed Up Thanks To NVIDIA's Documentation   Nouveau   2020-04-18
Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving   Nouveau   2020-02-01
NVIDIA Retiring Their Pre-Fermi "340 Series" Legacy Linux Graphics Driver   NVIDIA   2020-01-31
2010 Through 2019 NVIDIA Linux News Topped By Linus Torvald's Criticism + Overclocking   NVIDIA   2019-12-19
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews / Benchmarks Of The Past Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-12
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-11
NVIDIA 390.132 Linux Driver Released For Legacy Fermi Support   NVIDIA   2019-11-08
Scientific Linux 6/7 Will Remain Supported But The Distribution Is Ending   Red Hat   2019-04-22
NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support Nears Retirement, Starting With Notebook GPUs   NVIDIA   2019-03-09
NVIDIA 390.116 Legacy & 410.104 Long-Lived Linux Drivers Released   NVIDIA   2019-02-22
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
Nouveau Gallium3D Moves Closer Towards OpenGL 4.5 Compliance   Nouveau   2018-07-16
NVIDIA 390.59 Linux Driver Brings New GPU Support, X.Org Server 1.20 Compatibility   NVIDIA   2018-05-16
NVIDIA Preparing To Drop Fermi Support From Their Mainline Drivers   NVIDIA   2018-04-07
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
Red Hat Developer Manages Full Clock-Gating For Kepler With Nouveau   Nouveau   2018-01-15
Nouveau Developers Remain Blocked By NVIDIA From Advancing Open-Source Driver   Nouveau   2017-09-23
NVIDIA Releases 381.26.11 Linux Driver With OpenGL 4.6 Support   NVIDIA   2017-07-31
Nouveau NVC0 Enables ARB_post_depth_coverage   Nouveau   2017-06-03
NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau Makes Baby Steps Towards Memory Re-Clocking   Nouveau   2017-04-11
NVIDIA 375.39 Linux Driver Released, Backports Fixes To The Long-Lived Branch   NVIDIA   2017-02-14
NVIDIA Updates Legacy Drivers With X.Org Server 1.19 Support   NVIDIA   2017-02-14
Linux 4.9/4.10, Solaris Rumors, Graphics Driver News Ended Out 2016   Phoronix   2017-01-02
NVIDIA Updates Its Legacy Drivers For X.Org Server 1.19 Support   NVIDIA   2016-12-14
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
Gallium3D's Nouveau Lands ARB_compute_variable_group_size Implementation   Nouveau   2016-10-07
Don't Expect An Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Anytime Soon   Nouveau   2016-09-23
Nouveau Engine Reclocking Fixes Continue, NVIDIA Maxwell Re-Clocking Achieved   Nouveau   2016-08-16
The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Articles Over The Past 12 Years   Phoronix   2016-06-06
The 12 Big New Features Of Mesa 12.0   Mesa   2016-05-31
Nouveau NVC0 & RadeonSI Now Officially Expose OpenGL 4.3   Mesa   2016-05-27
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
Patches Published For Taking Nouveau Fermi Support Up To OpenGL 4.2   Nouveau   2016-05-14
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
OpenGL Compute Shader Support Lands For Nouveau GK104 & GM107+   Nouveau   2016-04-01
Nouveau Lands MP Performance Counters For The GK110   Nouveau   2016-03-12
Patches Published For Nouveau Compute Support On Kepler   Nouveau   2016-02-27
NVIDIA Releases Updated Vulkan Driver   NVIDIA   2016-02-24
Mesa NVC0 Lands Fermi Compute Shaders   Nouveau   2016-02-21
Vulkan Benchmarking Plans, Last Day For Valentine Premium Special   Premium   2016-02-16
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
Compute Shader Support Patches For NVIDIA Fermi On Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-02-06
Nouveau's Latest OpenGL 4.4 Extension Hits Mesa Git   Nouveau   2016-02-05
OpenGL 4.4's Query Buffer Object Support Appears Nearly Ready For Nouveau   Mesa   2016-01-31
Shader Image Support For The Gallium3D Mesa State Tracker   Mesa   2016-01-31
Nouveau Now Implements Two More GL4 Extensions, Very Close To OpenGL 4.2   Nouveau   2016-01-30
Core Compute Shader Support Under Review For Gallium3D   Nouveau   2016-01-24
Partial Fermi Re-Clocking Being Talked About For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-01-13
VA-API Video Acceleration Now Enabled For Nouveau Gallium3D   Nouveau   2016-01-05
PCI Express Speed Changes Still Being Worked On For Nouveau   Nouveau   2016-01-01
Nouveau Hooks Up ARB_shader_draw_parameters Support   Nouveau   2015-12-30
NVIDIA Open-Source Christmas Present: Some Documentation   NVIDIA   2015-12-22
NVIDIA Updates Legacy Drivers For X.Org Server 1.18   NVIDIA   2015-11-18
Nouveau NV50 Gets Basic Compute Support, A Step Towards OpenCL   Nouveau   2015-11-15
OpenGL 4.4's ARB_clear_texture Hits Nouveau Drivers   Nouveau   2015-11-11
Linux 4.4 DRM Pull Has Raspberry Pi Driver, AMDGPU Improvements   Hardware   2015-11-08
Nouveau NVC0 Enables Compute Support For Fermi GPUs   Mesa   2015-11-08
Nouveau Adds ARB_copy_image, Intel Adds Another OpenGL 4.3 Extension Too   Nouveau   2015-10-29
Looking Forward To The Linux 4.4 Merge Window Next Week   Linux Kernel   2015-10-28
Performance Counter Improvements On The Way For Nouveau Users   Nouveau   2015-10-16
Nouveau Patches: Kepler GDDR5 Re-Clocking, PCI-E Speed Changes & More   Nouveau   2015-10-13
Nouveau Voltage, Re-Clocking & Other Patches Start Queueing Up For Linux 4.4   Nouveau   2015-10-12
NVIDIA Performance Counters Still Coming Along For Nouveau   Nouveau   2015-09-20
NVIDIA's Current Pricing & Line-Up For The Maxwell Graphics Cards   NVIDIA   2015-08-20
Work Continues On FP64 Support For OpenGL 4.0 On Intel's Driver   Intel   2015-08-15
NVIDIA Releases "OpenGL 2015" + OpenGL ES 3.2 Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2015-08-10
OpenGL 4.1 Support Now Enabled In Mesa Git For AMD RadeonSI   Radeon   2015-07-30
Core Mesa Now Implements OpenGL 4.0, Nearly At OpenGL 4.1~4.2   Mesa   2015-07-23
NV50 Global Performance Counters For Nouveau   Nouveau   2015-06-23
NVIDIA Performance Counters Headed To Linux 4.2   Linux Kernel   2015-06-16
Nouveau Patches Under Review To Expose Global Performance Counters   Nouveau   2015-06-07
Features Added To Mesa 10.6 For Open-Source GPU Drivers   Mesa   2015-05-23
SteamOS 159 Drops Support For NVIDIA's Pre-Fermi Graphics Cards   Valve   2015-05-06
Nouveau Lands GL_AMD_Performance_Monitor Support   Nouveau   2015-05-05
Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes GLSL 4.10   Mesa   2015-04-28
Nouveau: NVIDIA's New Hardware Is "VERY Open-Source Unfriendly"   Nouveau   2015-04-15
Nouveau Gallium3D Now Supports Double-Precision Floating-Point Data Types   Nouveau   2015-02-21
NVIDIA 340.76 Brings Three Stable Fixes   NVIDIA   2015-01-28
The GTX 970/980 Maxwell GPUs Light Up With Nouveau On Linux 3.19   Nouveau   2015-01-10
Texture Compression Enabled For Nouveau NV50 Gallium3D   Nouveau   2015-01-05
The Top Linux Graphics Articles Of 2014: Testing Lots Of GPUs   Hardware   2014-12-31
Over-Volting Your GPU With The New NVIDIA Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2014-11-15
NVIDIA 346.16 Beta Adds VP8 Decoding, NVENC, GTK3 & Much More   NVIDIA   2014-11-13
Nouveau-PerfKit Still Being Worked On, Perf Counter Code Expected For Linux 3.20   Nouveau   2014-10-10
For Older NVIDIA GPUs, Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Getting Fit   Nouveau   2014-10-09
NVIDIA Linux 2D Benchmarks With The GeForce GTX 980   NVIDIA   2014-10-06
Scientific Linux 7.0 RC2 Is Ready For Testing   Red Hat   2014-10-03
Nouveau Memory Re-Clocking Comes For More NVIDIA GPUs   Nouveau   2014-09-29
Scientific Linux 7.0 RC1 Has Finally Arrived   Red Hat   2014-09-27
NVIDIA Maxwell GPU Support On Nouveau Still Requires More Work   Nouveau   2014-09-14
Debian & The FSF Launch A Linux Hardware Database   Hardware   2014-09-08
Re-Clocking Your NVIDIA GPU With Nouveau On Linux 3.17   Nouveau   2014-08-28
Nouveau Gets Improved Re-Clocking Handling For Select GPUs   Nouveau   2014-08-22
Scientific Linux 7.0 Beta 3 Released   Operating Systems   2014-08-20
Mesa Now Supports Another OpenGL 4.5 Extension   Mesa   2014-08-19
Nouveau Works On Maxwell Fan Management   Nouveau   2014-08-17
NVIDIA Already Publishes An OpenGL 4.5 Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2014-08-11
Nouveau's Big Batch Of Changes Land In Linux 3.17   Nouveau   2014-08-10
NVIDIA 343 Linux Driver Improves EGL Support, Fixes Many Bugs   NVIDIA   2014-08-06
BPTC Texture Compression Comes To Nouveau After Intel's Work   Mesa   2014-07-23
Nouveau NVC0 Gallium3D Now Supports Indirect Drawing   Nouveau   2014-07-16
AMD's GL Performance Monitor Gets Wired Up For Nouveau   Nouveau   2014-07-05
Scientific Linux 7 Alpha Arrives, Based On RHEL 7   Operating Systems   2014-07-04
Nouveau NVC0 Gets Close On Another OpenGL 4 extension   Nouveau   2014-06-15
The X.Org Foundation Is Funding Work To Improve Nouveau Re-Clocking   Nouveau   2014-06-13
NVIDIA 340.17 Linux Beta Driver Brings Initial G-SYNC Support   NVIDIA   2014-06-09
NVIDIA Pushes Down The 331.79 Linux Driver With Bug-Fixes   NVIDIA   2014-05-20
NVIDIA Performance Counters Continue To Be Reverse-Engineered   Nouveau   2014-05-18
Nouveau Re-Clocking Details Discussed Further   Nouveau   2014-05-17
Nouveau Might Add A "NvReclock" Option   Nouveau   2014-05-16
Nouveau Lands Maxwell GPU Support In Mesa Gallium3D   Mesa   2014-05-15
NVIDIA 337.19 Beta Linux GPU Driver Released   NVIDIA   2014-05-05
NVIDIA Will Soon Probably Introduce OpenCL 1.2 Linux Support   NVIDIA   2014-04-21
NVIDIA Might Be Working On G-SYNC Linux Support   NVIDIA   2014-04-11
How To Overclock New NVIDIA GPUs On Linux   NVIDIA   2014-04-08
NVIDIA Releases 337 Linux Driver With Overclocking, Better EGL   NVIDIA   2014-04-08
Nouveau Picks Up Slightly Better OpenGL 4.0 Support   Nouveau   2014-04-07
NVIDIA's Releasing An Overclocking Linux Driver Tomorrow   NVIDIA   2014-04-06
NVIDIA Will Support Newly-Dropped GPUs On Linux Through 2019   NVIDIA   2014-03-28
NVIDIA Dropping Pre-Fermi GPUs From Their Mainline Linux Driver   NVIDIA   2014-03-12
Intel's NUC, NVIDIA, Debian Drew In Lots Of Linux Interest   Phoronix   2014-02-28
Nouveau NV50 Gallium3D Gains A Bit More Of GL 4.0   Nouveau   2014-02-26
NVIDIA's Open-Source Plans For Maxwell With Nouveau   NVIDIA   2014-02-18
Nouveau's Status Update For Early 2014   Nouveau   2014-02-05
Nouveau Gallium3D Now Supports OpenGL 3.2, 3.3   Nouveau   2014-01-27
Nouveau 3.14 Gets New Acceleration, Still Lacking PM   Nouveau   2014-01-23
Nouveau Advances For OpenGL 3.2 Support   Nouveau   2014-01-13
NVIDIA Helping Nouveau With Video Decoding   Nouveau   2013-12-08
Nouveau NV50 Enables H.264 Decoding   Nouveau   2013-12-07
Linux 3.13, NVIDIA GPUs Won Over November   Phoronix   2013-11-30
NVIDIA Is "Taking Linux Gaming Serious"   NVIDIA   2013-11-25
The State Of Mesa OpenGL GL3/GL4 Updated   Mesa   2013-11-18
What You Won't Find In The Linux 3.13 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2013-11-18
13 Reasons Linux 3.13 Is Going To Be Very Exciting   Linux Kernel   2013-11-15
The Major DRM Graphics Update Sent Into Linux 3.13   Linux Kernel   2013-11-15
Nouveau Gets Page Flipping Fixes, Sync To VBlank   Nouveau   2013-11-15
Nouveau Receives Greater Re-Clocking Support   Nouveau   2013-11-13