If you read the news, it’s all about AMD kicking ass left and right. They keep punching Intel on CPUs, they challenge Nvidia on GPUs more daring

470 Drivers: Nvidia Steps Up Their Game!

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2021-06-25 17:00:08

If you read the news, it’s all about AMD kicking ass left and right. They keep punching Intel on CPUs, they challenge Nvidia on GPUs more daringly than ever, and with (more) open drivers. However, Nvidia is a lot more alive than Intel is, in terms of technology, and in this past week they have demonstrated their commitment to Linux with the newest 470 drivers.

It’s also clear there is a healthy collaboration between Proton and Nvidia’s drivers’ development as a bug encountered by DXVK was found and corrected in the 470 driver:

Fixed a bug that could cause intermittent corruption in Wolfenstein: Youngblood when using NVIDIA Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs.

Updated GPU fan control to be available by default in nvidia-settings and NV-CONTROL, for GPU boards that support programmable fan control. Previously, this was only available when bit 2 was set in the “Coolbits” X config option.

Ethan Lee has just reported on Twitter that the beta driver seems to work fine with Wayland, and posted this screenshot with FEZ running on Xwayland:

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