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NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors
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Don't their current beta drivers support like... 10 year old products?
I have a lot of complaints about Nvidia (which is one of the reasons I moved away from their cards), but longevity of support hasn't really been one of them.
I have a 650m from 2013 (almost 10 years) and there are zero working drivers aside from noveau ones.
I have a gtx 670 from 12 years ago and nouveau is incredibly slow for me. I need to use the proprietary driver.
Yeah, but because pricing jumped like someone set a firecracker off under it's chair people are actually still using vintage GPUs.
It's not a perfect comparison, but if we go by the Steam Hardware Survey, the first item I can find on the list that's not supported with the latest beta drivers is the GT 730, at 0.21% of users. And it's from June 2014.
Its passmark score is 835, which is lower than the 9 year old Intel HD 520 (867). I somehow doubt though that driver support for Vulkan/Wayland will be the major blocker.