Nvidia Linux Display Driver 355.00 Vulkan is Released, Install/Update on Ubuntu/Linux Mint

How to Install Nvidia Linux Display Driver 355.00 Vulkan on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.3, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Nvidia Linux Display Driver Beta is a proprietary OpenGL video driver that tries to bring bleeding-edge features for graphics cards produced by Nvidia and used under a GNU/Linux operating system. Both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) architectures are supported at this time.

Fair warning!

Before reading further, please keep in mind that this is a Beta version. Even if it brings all the latest features and fixes annoying bugs from previous or current stable releases of the driver, it is still an unstable piece of software that may cause unpredictable issues or damage your hardware. Because of this, we do not recommend to install this Beta driver on production machines. You have been warned!

What New in version 355.00 Vulkan

• Add support for 64-bit vertex attribute formats
• Improve performance of vkBindBufferMemory, vkBindImageMemory and vkCreateGraphicsPipelines
• No longer enumerate Fermi based GPUs in vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices
• Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels
• Linux: Fixed issue with vkAllocateMemory() crashing under some circumstances

Vulkan Beta Driver Release Notes

You will need any one of the following Kepler or Maxwell (both first and second generation Maxwell) based GPUs to get access to Vulkan functionality:

• Quadro Series: Quadro M6000, Quadro M5000, Quadro M4000, Quadro K6000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K2200, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D, Quadro K1200, Quadro K620, Quadro K420
• Quadro Series (Notebooks): Quadro K5100M, Quadro K5000M, Quadro K4100M, Quadro K4000M, Quadro K3100M, Quadro K2200M, Quadro K2100M, Quadro K3000M, Quadro K2000M, Quadro K1100M, Quadro K1000M, Quadro K620M, Quadro K610M, Quadro K510M, Quadro K500M
• GeForce 900 Series: GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950
• GeForce 700 Series: GeForce GTX TITAN Z, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705
• GeForce 600 Series: GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 630

The Vulkan specifications can be found here : https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/

Download for Linux 32-bit (Right-Click to Save)
Download for Linux 64-bit (Right-Click to Save)

How to Install/Update Nvidia Linux Display Driver 355.00 Vulkan on Ubuntu/Linux Mint :

To Install Nvidia Linux Display Driver 355.00 Vulkan on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.3, Linux Mint 17.2, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

For Linux 32 bit :

Download File :

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gameworks/downloads/secure/Vulkan_Beta_Drivers/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-355.00.28.run?autho=1456424109_3d1d5ccde0c583bea3095e25da4e011c&file=NVIDIA-Linux-x86-355.00.28.run

Set Pemission :

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-355.00.28.run

Run

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-355.00.28.run

For Linux 64 bit :

Download File :

wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gameworks/downloads/secure/Vulkan_Beta_Drivers/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.00.28.run?autho=1456424357_1a6d23112ee42b6a295905debb352a26&file=NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.00.28.run

Set Pemission :

sudo chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.00.28.run

Run

./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-355.00.28.run

Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.