The R470 version of the Linux graphics driver from Nvidia will be used for the last time graphics cards from the GeForce GTX 600 (test) and GeForce GTX 700 (test) series based on the GPU, which was first used in 2012 and was efficient at the time. Architecture Kepler support, which succeeded the extremely thirsty and much criticized Fermi generation.
As the website Phoronix, which specializes in Linux and FOSS, first reported, the two generations with the GeForce GTX 680 as well as the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and the first GeForce GTX Titan (test) at the top with the release 470 (“R470”) supported for the last time by Nvidia's official graphics driver for Linux. This in turn emerges from an update of the CUDA documentation.
As a so-called Long Term Support Branch (” LTSB “), the soon-to-be-expected Release 470 is still receiving Support from Nvidia until mid-2024, but new releases will only support Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing and Ampere.
3.2 10.x Release 470 Kepler 2.0 3.5
3.7 11.x Release 470 Maxwell 5.0
5.2
5.3 11.x – Pascal 6.0
6.1 11.x – Volta 7.0 11.x – Turing 7.5 11.x – Ampere 8.0
8.6 11.x –
As an alternative, there is the free open source driver Nouveau, which supports the Kepler generation also supported.