According to https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/ the 545 branch
has been superseded by:

* Latest Production Branch Version: 550.78
* Latest New Feature Branch Version: 560.35.03

I'm not completely clear on which of these is suitable for experimental
and which is suitable for testing/unstable, but it would be great if the
v545 packaging in experimental could be replaced with one of those.

According to
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/drivers/index.html#cuda-drivers
the 535 branch is still the current long-term-support branch for data
centre use, and 550 is the shorter-lifetime production branch for data
centre use (but I don't know whether that has any impact on the support
lifetime of the corresponding consumer drivers, and 535 is no longer listed
on https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/ at all, which might indicate
that it's no longer a supported version for consumer/gaming use-cases).

I would guess the most appropriate thing might be 550 in experimental
first, possibly followed by 550 in unstable and 560 in experimental?

There are indications that Vulkan games like Dota 2, when running on newer
GPUs, might need a newer driver than the v535 that we currently have in
Debian: <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2787>.
But I don't have an affected GPU, so I'm unable to confirm that.

Thanks,
    smcv

Hi, Resolve 19 requires 550.40.07 (a minimum of CUDA 12.3) now too.

Hi,
Just to add that RTX 4XXX Super were briefly supported on one
experimental version, 535.154.05, published on March 2024.
I'm not aware of 4XXX Super support in any later 535 or even 545
versions. Switching to 550 or 560 branches should enable these new cards
to be supported once again.

Thanks,
Lucas

Hi,

The NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super has been released in January 2024. My 5 month old
machine running Debian Sid uses a NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super with the current
latest drivers 535.183.06-1. While the driver 'works', I am also noticing
unexplainable performance shifts, drops, stutters, lags as well as screen
tearing.

While looking into the issue and for possible solutions, I have noticed
that the GPU is not officially supported with this driver version.
Therefore, I would love to see an up to date version of the nvidia-driver
package. It would be the first version to officially support my GPU.

I am happy to help test, debug or contribute in any way.

Thanks,
Michael
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retitle 1081302 New upstream production branch 570
thanks

According to this:
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/index.html
And this:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

New upstream production branch is now at 570. Is that *not* going to
make it to Trixie?
Is Debian now only going to track Long Term Support Branches? (only
active right now is 535).
I see that the Nvidia 535 "Tesla" driver already has a package. So why
not upgrade this one to the latest production branch?

My understanding is that 570 is needed for much better Wayland support.

Control: retitle -1 nvidia-graphics-drivers: New upstream releases 570 and 580

There is now also a long-term support branch, version 580.

Unfortunately 580 isn't listed in
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ for whatever reason, but it
does appear in https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/index.html and it
is also what shows up when I search https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/
for recommended Linux 64-bit drivers for a recent GPU.

    smcv

FWIW, ATM my laptop is difficult to use while traveling since I cannot
suspend -- the system freezes upon resume or switching from text virtual
terminals. I believe it could potentially be assisted with new
releases which I was told have better support for modeset=1 mode (ATM
haunted by another issue).

580 is now listed at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ FWIW.