With NVIDIA having announced the GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards (formerly known as “Fermi”) at the end of March and these graphics cards starting to appear at Internet retailers (see links below), NVIDIA has now put out its OpenGL 4.0 Linux driver.

The OpenGL 4.0 specification was released towards the middle of March alongside an OpenGL 3.3 update, which NVIDIA was quick to capitalize upon the 3.x update just days later with new drivers for supported operating systems. NVIDIA wasn’t immediate in delivering OpenGL 4.0 support, since they didn’t have any hardware at the time capable of supporting this newest specification. Now that the GeForce GTX 470/480 GPUs are out there and other new DirectX 11.0 / OpenGL 4.0 capable hardware is on the way, NVIDIA has put out its OpenGL 4.0 driver update for Linux and Windows.

The new Linux driver is 195.36.07.04 and provides full support for OpenGL 4.0 with GLSL 4.00 (GL Shading Language 4) and for the older non-GL4 capable hardware it has OpenGL 3.3 with GLSL 3.30. This new OpenGL 4 NVIDIA Linux driver can be found on their developer page.

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