Bug#1081302: nvidia-graphics-drivers: New upstream releases 550 (production) and 560 (new-feature)

[Michael Schulz]

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


On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:01:27 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com>
wrote:
> Source: nvidia-graphics-drivers
> Version: 545.23.06-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> 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 has been superseded by: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
>
>
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