• Added support for Vulkan direct-to-display on DisplayPort displays which are connected via DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport (DP-MST).
• Added a new documentation file, supported-gpus.json, which exposes a machine-readable list of supported GPUs and features.
• Added an implementation of glNamedBufferPageCommitmentARB, which was missing from the NVIDIA driver's support for the GL_ARB_sparse_buffer extension.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a KDE Plasma session to crash when running under Wayland.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some Swap Group configurations to present at half of the display refresh rate.
• Added a new Connector-N display connector name alias type, with a unique alias assigned to each physical display connector on a GPU. See the README for more information.
• Fixed a bug that prevented X11 EGL displays from being reinitialized.
• The 450 driver series is the last that supports NvFBC's NVFBC_CAPTURE_TO_HW_ENCODER capture interface, which has been deprecated since NVIDIA Capture SDK 6.0 released in 2017. Future NVIDIA drivers after the 450 series will return NVFBC_ERR_UNSUPPORTED if that capture interface is requested.
  The recommended way to encode captured frames with NVENC is by using the NVIDIA Video Codec SDK.
  See: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk
• Implemented support for NVIDIA NGX. A new library, libnvidia-ngx.so, has been added to support the new functionality. This new library is needed by applications which link against any of the following SDKs:
  
  
  NVIDIA DLSS SDK
  NVIDIA NGX SDK
  
  
• Fixed a bug which caused Vulkan applications to leak file descriptors when destroying Vulkan instances.
• Added a fallback presentation path for PRIME Render Offload configurations where the DRI3 and/or Present extension are unavailable.
• Fixed a bug where vkCreateSampler would fail with no borderColor data, even though it wasn't needed.
• Fixed a bug where vkUpdateDescriptorSetWithTemplate would ignore the stride parameter for some VkDescriptorType values.
• Fixed a bug causing the Plasma desktop panel to freeze when compositing is disabled (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353983)
• Improved Vulkan device enumeration under an X.Org X server environment. See the "Known Issues" in the README for more information.
• Fixed a visual glitch of Vulkan applications when they stop flipping due to a window change, such as when alt-tab is used to change window focus.
• Fixed a bug where XGetImage requests would return stale data for flipping Vulkan applications. In particular, this fixes screen-scraping tools such as VNC and import.
• Removed libnvidia-fatbinaryloader.so from the driver package. This functionality is now built into other driver libraries.
• Extended the dynamic runtime power management support in the NVIDIA driver to shut off power to video memory under certain conditions.
  See the chapter titled "PCI-Express Runtime D3 (RTD3) Power Management" in the README for more information.
• Added HEVC 10/12 bit "decode only" support to the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.
  Note that VDPAU's presentation pipeline and OpenGL-VDPAU interop does not support 10- and 12-bit video surfaces yet. See the "VDPAU Support" appendix in the README for supported HEVC decoder profiles.
• Added support for Image Sharpening for OpenGL and Vulkan applications
• Added new VdpYCbCrFormats VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_Y_U_V_444_16, VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_P010 and VDP_YCBCR_FORMAT_P016 for accessing 16-bit surfaces via VdpVideoSurfaceGetBitsYCbCr() and VdpVideoSurfacePutBitsYCbCr() in the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.
• Added support to create 16-bit video surfaces in the NVIDIA VDPAU driver.
• Modified nvidia-persistenced and libnvidia-ml (NVML) to use libtirpc for communication instead of relying on the deprecated glibc RPC implementation.
• Enabled GPU screens by default on X.Org xserver version 1.20.7 and higher.
• Fixed a bug where rendering in a separate user namespace (unshare -U) would show black window and produce Xid 13 errors.
• Removed support for "IgnoreDisplayDevices" X configuration option.
• Added support for PRIME Synchronization when using displays driven by the x86-video-amdgpu driver as PRIME display offload sinks.
• Added support for displays connected to NVIDIA GPUs to act as PRIME display offload sinks, also known as "Reverse PRIME". See the chapter titled "Offloading Graphics Display with RandR 1.4" in the README for additional information.
• Removed 'libGL.la' libtool archive from the install package.

Known issue:

Vulkan with flipping enabled on Quadro cards can lead to graphic corruption. If you think you have run into it you can do either of the following as a workaround:

- Disable flipping in nvidia-settings (uncheck "Allow Flipping" in the "OpenGL Settings" panel)
- Disable UBB (run 'nvidia-xconfig --no-ubb')
- Use a composited desktop

Note that many Linux distributions provide their own packages of the NVIDIA Linux Graphics Driver in the distribution's native package management format. This may interact better with the rest of your distribution's framework, and you may want to use this rather than NVIDIA's official package.

Also note that SuSE users should read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO before downloading the driver.

Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.51.run

One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig

Note that the list of supported GPU products is provided to indicate which GPUs are supported by a particular driver version. Some designs incorporating supported GPUs may not be compatible with the NVIDIA Linux driver: in particular, notebook and all-in-one desktop designs with switchable (hybrid) or Optimus graphics will not work if means to disable the integrated graphics in hardware are not available. Hardware designs will vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so please consult with a system's manufacturer to determine whether that particular system is compatible.

See the README for more detailed instructions.

For further information please visit our forum, https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/board/98/linux/.

GeForce RTX 20 Series (Notebooks):

GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce RTX 20 Series:

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2080, GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2070, GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER, GeForce RTX 2060

GeForce MX300 Series (Notebooks):

GeForce MX350, GeForce MX330

GeForce MX200 Series (Notebooks):

GeForce MX250, GeForce MX230

GeForce MX100 Series (Notebook):

GeForce MX150, GeForce MX130, GeForce MX110

GeForce 16 Series:

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, GeForce GTX 1660, GeForce GTX 1650

GeForce 10 Series:

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050, GeForce GT 1030

GeForce 10 Series (Notebooks):

GeForce GTX 1080, GeForce GTX 1070, GeForce GTX 1060, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, GeForce GTX 1050

GeForce 900 Series:

GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 900M Series (Notebooks):

GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce GTX 965M, GeForce GTX 960M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce 945M, GeForce 940MX, GeForce 930MX, GeForce 920MX, GeForce 940M, GeForce 930M

GeForce 800M Series (Notebooks):

GeForce GTX 860M, GeForce GTX 850M, GeForce 845M, GeForce 840M, GeForce 830M

GeForce 700 Series:

GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710

GeForce 600 Series:

GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 635, GeForce GT 630

GeForce 600M Series (Notebooks):

GeForce GT 640M LE

NVIDIA TITAN Series:

NVIDIA TITAN RTX, NVIDIA TITAN V, NVIDIA TITAN Xp, GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN Z

Quadro RTX Series:

Quadro RTX 8000, Quadro RTX 6000, Quadro RTX 5000, Quadro RTX 4000, Quadro RTX 3000

Quadro Series:

Quadro GV100, Quadro GP100, Quadro P6000, Quadro P5200, Quadro P5000, Quadro P4000, Quadro P2200, Quadro P2000, Quadro P1000, Quadro P620, Quadro P600, Quadro P400, Quadro M6000 24GB, Quadro M6000, Quadro M5000, Quadro M4000, Quadro M2000, Quadro K6000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K2200, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D, Quadro K1200, Quadro K620, Quadro K600, Quadro K420, Quadro 410

Quadro Series (Notebooks):

Quadro T2000, Quadro T1000, Quadro P5200, Quadro P5000, Quadro P4200, Quadro P3200, Quadro P4000, Quadro P3000, Quadro P2000, Quadro P1000, Quadro P600, Quadro P520, Quadro P500, Quadro M2200, Quadro M1200, Quadro M620, Quadro M520, Quadro M5500, Quadro M5000M, Quadro M4000M, Quadro M3000M, Quadro M2000M, Quadro M1000M, Quadro M600M, Quadro M500M, Quadro K2200M, Quadro K620M

Quadro Blade/Embedded Series :

Quadro P5000, Quadro P3000, Quadro M5000 SE, Quadro M3000 SE

Quadro NVS Series:

NVS 810, NVS 510

GRID Series:

GRID K520

NVS Series:

NVS 810, NVS 510