how to choose the driver in the community repos.

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#1

Hello.

the SDB:NVIDIA drivers does not explain really how to choose between G0x nvidia driver in the community repos.


S | Name                | Summary                                                 | Type
--+---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
  | x11-video-nvidiaG04 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 400 series and newer | package
  | x11-video-nvidiaG05 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 600 series and newer | package

Which nvidia cards are “GeForce 400 series and newer”
Which nvidia cards are “GeForce 600 series and newer”
Which type is a nvidia rtx 2060

Any help is welcome

#2

You can check which driver supports which card on the nvidia “download” site:

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

#3

Try to install the latest.
If failed, use previous (G05 → G04 → G03 …).

nVidia hides some info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units

For instance, GeForce 600 series:

GeForce GT 630: look at the code name. GF is of Fermi microarchitecture, GK - Kepler microarchitecture.

Kepler is still supported, but not Fermi.

#4

Nvidia doesn’t know how opensuse names its drivers.
By following your link to the nvidia site, could find for me a driver ‘x11-video-nvidiaG04’

#5

Thank you for the information.

#6

If you choose the driver for your card at the nvidia side, it gives you the version of the driver and you can see, which version has the G04 or G05 driver

zypper if nvidia-computeG04
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package nvidia-computeG04:
------------------------------------------
Repository     : nvidia
Name           : nvidia-computeG04
Version        : 390.138-lp152.31.1
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : obs://build.suse.de/Proprietary:X11:Drivers
Installed Size : 70,8 MiB
Installed      : No
Status         : not installed
Source package : x11-video-nvidiaG04-390.138-lp152.31.1.nosrc
Summary        : NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU
Description    : 
    NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPUs using CUDA or OpenCL.

390.138 is the version of the nvidia-driver used as source for this package.
Its also her in the version:

zypper se -s nvidia-computeG04
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name              | Type    | Version            | Arch   | Repository
--+-------------------+---------+--------------------+--------+-----------
  | nvidia-computeG04 | package | 390.138-lp152.31.1 | x86_64 | nvidia

If you use the “beta-driver and archive” button on the nvidia side, you can see all possible working drivers for your card.