- Package:
- src:nvidia-graphics-drivers
- Source:
- src:nvidia-graphics-drivers
- Submitter:
- Samuel Henrique
- Date:
- 2026-06-09 00:17:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer, The new RTX 5000 series is only usable starting with driver version 570.124.04, released in February 2025. Please package the version 570 of the driver for support for the new GPUs: 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, 5090. Thank you,
I would like to request this as well. The current driver version is the same that we ship in Trixie and we don't have any support for RTX 5000 cards although they have been used for some time now and are the default NVIDIAS GPUs in laptops. The production version seems to be 595 at the moment. But Git doesn't show any branch related to version 570 or 595. Thus, I assume, these versions are still not being worked on. Is there anything that can be done to help the update and support your work? What is required to have the current production version packaged? Regards, Daniel
It looks like Nvidia has 3 types of driver branches
New Feature Branch (NFB),
Production (PB),
Long Term Support Branch (LTSB)
| architecture | gpu_examples | 610 NFB | 595 Prod | 590 Prod |
580 LTSB | 575 NFB | 570 Prod | 565 Prod | 560 Prod | 555 NFB | 550 Prod |
|-----------------|----------------------|---------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|
| EOL date | | TBD | Mar 2027 | Dec 2026 |
Aug 2028 | Jun 2026 | Jan 2026 | Oct 2025 | Aug 2025 | Jun 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Blackwell Ultra | B300 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| | | | | | |
| Blackwell | RTX 5090, B200 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | | |
| Hopper | H100 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ada Lovelace | RTX 4090, L40S | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ampere | RTX 3090, A100 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Turing | RTX 2080, Tesla T4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Volta | Titan V, Tesla V100 | | | |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pascal | GTX 1080, Tesla P100 | | | |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Maxwell | GTX 980, Tesla M40 | | | |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
So we probably need the 580 LTSB in Forky.
Blackwell users will need nvidia-open-kernel-dkms (kernel module) and
nvidia-graphics-drivers (userspace).
See:
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
"For cutting-edge platforms such as NVIDIA Grace Hopper or NVIDIA
Blackwell, you must use the open-source GPU kernel modules. The proprietary
drivers are unsupported on these platforms."