Please note that as Nobara is a forward-moving, gaming-focused distribution, it is required that if you have an Nvidia GPU, it must be supported by Nvidia open driver version 565.77 or newer for compatibility with the latest Wayland, VKD3D and DXVK updates, OBS, Gamescope, and Vulkan. Older driver versions do not have the functionality and vulkan extensions that are required for these and will have performance and rendering issues, or may not work at all. For details please see:
https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope/issues/151
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/187834/en/
https://github.com/nowrep/obs-vkcapture#known-issues
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/187826/en-us/
Nvidia switched to defaulting to the open source driver module in driver 560. As of 565.77 we've also made the same switch. The open-source Nvidia driver does not support pascal (10 series) and older because it requires GSP firmware, which those cards are not capable of.
The lowest supported chips are the GTX 1630 and MX 450 (mobile only):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(microarchitecture).
Anything before Turing is not supported.
If you are still unsure if your GPU is supported by the open driver:
Supported by current open driver:
GeForce RTX: 50 Series, 40 Series, 30 Series, 20 Series
GeForce: 16 Series
NVIDIA Turing: T4, T4G
Nobara tries to stay up-to-date with Nvidia x86_64 Linux drivers, providing Production, New Feature and Beta driver branches.
Starting from 24.03.2026. Nvidia has officially released the 595.58.03 Production drivers, and with it Pascal and older generation Nvidia GPUs are no longer supported.
The following older architectures and specific series are no longer supported by this driver version:
GeForce 10 Series (Pascal): Includes popular cards like the GTX 1080 Ti, 1080, 1070, 1060, and 1050.
GeForce 900 & 700 Series (Maxwell/Kepler): Support for these was dropped in earlier driver branches, and they remain unsupported in the 595.x series.
Legacy Data Center GPUs: Older Tesla models such as the M40, M4, K80, and K40 are not supported.
Nobara does not retain old versions of Nvidia drivers, therefore those models are no longer supported.
It should be additionally noted, Nobara 41 and higher do not ship with X11 packages and also does not support X11 moving forward.