Ubuntu 14.04 GTX 970

14.04 drivers nvidia gpu

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Searching for the driver for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card at the official NVIDIA website returns the following results.

The latest driver available at the official NVIDIA website is the recommended driver for this graphics card. The best choice of drivers for this graphics cards from the Ubuntu repositories is the nvidia-331 graphics card driver which is the latest tested NVIDIA proprietary graphics card driver in Ubuntu 14.04. nvidia-331-updates is a more recent graphics driver in Ubuntu 14.04, but it is not called tested in the Additional Drivers utility.

To be sure that this is the correct driver for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, open the terminal and type:

ubuntu-drivers devices

The results of this command will show a list of drivers and the NVIDIA driver with Recommended appearing after it is the correct driver to install. The Recommended NVIDIA graphics driver from the Ubuntu Software Center is the best driver to install because it is the most stable and reliable driver available from anywhere, and the small incremental performance enhancements that may be possible to achieve from bumping up to the latest graphics driver are not worth the risk of making Ubuntu less stable.

Is the 290 easier to deal with?

If you want to get a specific answer to this question, you need to provide the full name and model number of the graphics card, because AMD also makes a graphics card called AMD Radeon R9 290 and I need to know the full name and model number of the graphics card to search for the correct driver. NVIDIA usually releases graphics card driver updates faster than AMD, but since both cards were launched about one year ago I don't think this would make any difference in Ubuntu 14.04.

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KMJ1992

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

KMJ1992 over 1 year

Okay a guy on a forum told me that its issues installing the drivers for the 970. Can anyone confirm that its doable from additional drivers?

Also is the 290 easier to deal with? (except drivers being awful?)
- Pilot6 almost 9 years
  
  What is 290? Is it Nvidia model?
- Pilot6 almost 9 years
  
  If it is AMD, then GTX 970 is a much better choice for Ubuntu.
- KMJ1992 almost 9 years
  
  I need to know if I should get a R9 290 or a GTX 970 for Ubuntu! :D
- guntbert almost 9 years
  
  I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it asks for hardware recommendations. Answers to such questoins usually have a very short time of validity.
- KMJ1992 almost 9 years
  
  Why? I need a GPU for Ubuntu... Can anyone tell me if the 970 will work out of the box without a CPU iGPU or not?
- A.B. almost 9 years
  
  Take the Nvidia GTX 970
karel almost 9 years

That's a scary graphics card, big and power-hungry with 4GB built-in graphics memory suitable for a computer with >=8GB RAM. You probably need to go with the latest proprietary graphics card driver from the official AMD website for best results, although I know that it will also work with fglrx driver from the Ubuntu Software Center.
KMJ1992 almost 9 years

Which will give best performance? Also will it be stuck at 50fps like Phoronix benchmarks were saying or have that been fixed?
karel almost 9 years

Performance isn't as important a consideration to me as stability when comparing two beast graphics cards, so I'd punk out and choose the more stable card.
KMJ1992 almost 9 years

Which is more stable? :O
karel almost 9 years

I can't tell you anything that you don't already know from reading the product reviews. With a card that big, even an NVIDIA graphics card (which are usually good, stable graphics cards) can behave very badly forcing you back into Windows where it works perfectly.
KMJ1992 almost 9 years

I see well then I have alot to think about...