Nouveau: Accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA GPUs
The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for NVIDIA GPUs. “Nouveau” [nuvo] is the French word for “new”. Nouveau is composed of a Linux kernel driver (nouveau) and OpenGL and Vulkan drivers in Mesa.
Current Status
- OpenGL is supported on all GPUs.
- Vulkan is supported on all Kepler and later GPUs.
- Video decoding acceleration supported on most pre-Maxwell cards; see VideoAcceleration for details.
- Automatic reclocking available for Turing and newer GPUs through GSP firmware.
- Support for manual performance level selection (also known as "reclocking") on GM10x Maxwell, Kepler and Tesla G94-GT218 GPUs. Available in
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate. There is little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x, GP10x and GV100 as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access.
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