Among the notable improvements, the driver introduces a new environment variable,
CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST, allowing users to disable CUDA’s default behavior of automatically boosting GPU clock speeds to higher power states during compute workloads.
For virtualization users, the driver addresses a soft lockup issue involving the vfio-pci module, which could occur after powering off a virtual machine with a passed-through NVIDIA GPU. This fix improves reliability for users running GPU passthrough in environments such as KVM or QEMU.
The good news is Nvidia consumer grade GPUs don’t even support vGPU and can’t be passed though if Host OS is using it.
I genuely returned the last GPU I bought from Nvidia after they told me they didn’t support Linux installs. Hope everyone else stuck with it is doing fine.
My 3070Ti also doing just fine - both for Gaming and for running Llama.
Now, to be honest, I never had a chance to use AMD GPU on Linux, so I can’t really say if it is at par with AMD GPU performance or not.
I switched from my AMD RX6750 to a RTX3070 Ti this year(since i got the Nvidia nearly for free). There are still issues with Nvidia(for example in Game Mode, HDR etc.) but its really usable. AMD on the other Hand is Plug and Play without thinkering in my experience
My 4060 Ti is doing fine.
Unnecessary rant: I actually just had to downgrade my 575(?) driver after spending a few days trying to troubleshoot a freezing laptop. One day I walked away when it happen and that actually gave me the logs I needed to find the Nvidia driver was freezing the machine and then spitting logs out after giving up 10 minutes later (but still keeping things frozen). Was driving me nuts, thinking my hard drive was seeing the light, even though all tests for it were passing with flying colors!
I’m hesitant to try this new version since I didn’t see anything in the changelog about freeze fixes lol.
I have a similar issue, my laptop will sometimes refuse to wake up from suspend when opening the lid. And forcing it awake with ttyd just makes it wig out, I can’t even reboot it at which point, it just hangs while rebooting.
Hate my Nvidia laptop, everything worked fine 3 years ago and now nothing works.
When it comes to Nvidia driver for Linux, my suggestion is - always stick to the version you find stable enough.
In my case, Last Nvidia 580 driver version works smoothly on my Desktop. Earlier I was on 550.
On a side note, faulty RAM often cause system freeze/crash. You might want to run memtest from boot menu as well.
Updating nvidia drivers always breaks my system lol
same was happening to me. games blacking out, or pc completely freezing during the loading screen. so right now, I am on 550.163.01. guess my graphics card is just outdated by nvidia standards.
I have the FRL issue.
Every time I wake up my monitors, my second monitor acts like the cable is disconnecting and reconnecting every few seconds. I hotkeyed a script to re-set my display (disabling the display and then re-enabling it) which fixes it temporarily (until my monitors sleep).
I don’t have nvidia, but I’ve solved this by making the monitors never sleep automatically, unless a hotkey is pressed.
