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NVIDIA (Nvidia Corporation, /ɛnˈvɪdiə/; called NVIDIA in Hong Kong, Huida in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and NVIDIA in mainland China), founded in January 1993, is an wireless company mainly engaged in the design and sales of graphics processors. factory semiconductor company. NVIDIA also designs the cores of game consoles, such as the Xbox and PlayStation. NVIDIA's most famous product line is the GeForce series designed for individuals and gamers, the Quadro series designed for professional CGI workstations, and the Tesla series designed for servers and efficient computing. Although it started in the graphics card business of PC computers, Nvidia It was also involved in the design of the mobile chip Tegra, but the smart machine market did not respond much to this. However, in recent years, it has used these research and development experiences to develop towards the market of artificial intelligence and machine vision. It is also the invention of CUDA, an important development tool for graphics processors. By. However, NVIDIA's development process is also subject to constant criticism. The criticisms are mostly focused on the abuse of exclusive business cooperation, improper marketing methods, and rejection of the industry's open standards and free software movement.
1. Basic concepts
The graphics card is inserted into the expansion slot on the motherboard (now it is generally a PCI-E slot, and there were AGP, PCI, ISA and other slots before). It is mainly responsible for converting the display signal sent by the host to the monitor into a general electrical signal, so that the monitor can understand what the personal computer is doing. The main chip of the graphics card is called "display chip" (Video chipset, also called GPU or VPU, graphics processor or visual processor), which is the main processing unit of the graphics card. There is also a memory similar to computer memory on the graphics card, called "display memory", or video memory for short. NVIDIA graphics card universal driver is a simple and practical graphics card driver software. NVIDIA graphics card universal driver mainly serves NVIDIA graphics cards. It can maximize the performance of the graphics card and bring you a good gaming experience. The use of NVIDIA graphics card universal driver is very simple. There are also many device models supported at the same time. The graphics card driver is the program used to drive the graphics card, which is the software corresponding to the hardware. A driver is a small piece of code added to an operating system that contains information about a hardware device.
2. Operation steps
1. Graphics card hardware model
ubuntu-drivers devices
It can be found that the graphics card driver recommended by the system is version 520.
2. Install the driver
- Open "Software and Updates" - "Additional Drivers",
select the version number obtained in the first step to install, and click "Apply Changes".
Summarize
This article introduces how to install NVIDIA graphics driver on Ubuntu.