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Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

9to5Linux ☛ NVIDIA 580.119.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Various Bug Fixes

NVIDIA 580.119.02 graphics driver is now available for download for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various bug fixes.

Linuxiac ☛ NVIDIA Releases Linux Driver 580.119 With Fixes for Vulkan and EGL Apps

After releasing version 580.105 of its stable display driver for 64-bit Linux systems in early November, NVIDIA today rolled out version 580.119, now available as a recommended update for users seeking the latest stable improvements for their graphics hardware.

Jeff Geerling ☛ Benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi

Now that Nvidia GPUs run on the Raspberry Pi, I've been putting all the ones I own through their paces.

Many people have an older Nvidia card (like a 3060) laying around from an upgrade. So could a Pi be suitable for GPU-accelerated video transcoding, either standalone for conversion, or running something like Jellyfin for video library management and streaming?

That's what I set out to do, and the first step, besides getting the drivers and CUDA going (see blog post linked above), was to find a way to get a repeatable benchmark going.

Luckily, I found Proryanator's encoder-benchmark, which is built with Rust and uses ffmpeg to benchmark any popular GPU-accelerated video endcoder/decoder (including Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Apple).