How to Install NVIDIA Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04, 18.04, 16.04 | Latest Proprietary Driver

Complete guide to install or update NVIDIA graphics drivers on Ubuntu and its derivatives system e.g Linux Mint, Elementary OS, KDE Neon, Zorin, or any Ubuntu based distributions. I've been using this without any issues e.g login loops, low graphics mode, freezing at boot screen, or any NVIDIA Linux related drama.

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FYI, Ubuntu comes with the open source nouveau driver, which is included out of the box. However, this driver not properly support the graphics card's functionality. In my experience, it perform worse.

And in a few cases, the system would not boot. If you are a gamer or need to work with 3D graphics, then you need to install NVIDIA proprietary driver to get better performance.

There are 3 ways to install latest GPU card driver. First, you can use graphical user interface by opening additional driver from the application launcher. The other way is done from the command line interface by adding Personal Package Archive (PPA), or install NVIDIA .run driver for Linux.

IMPORTANT NOTES
Installing wrong drivers may introduce an issue. As for which drivers to use, please head to nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and check what they recommend.

If one of the listed drivers is already provided by the official repositories for your Ubuntu release, just install it, no need for a PPA. Otherwise, you may add this PPA and install from there.

SUPPORTED RELEASES AND VERSION
The drivers is available for 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 21.04, 21.10, 22.04 LTS at the moment.

- NVIDIA 304
- NVIDIA 340
- NVIDIA 384
- NVIDIA 410
- NVIDIA 415
- NVIDIA 418
- NVIDIA 430
- NVIDIA 390
- NVIDIA 435
- NVIDIA 440
- NVIDIA 450
- NVIDIA 460
- NVIDIA 470
- NVIDIA 495
- NVIDIA 510

** The support for newer version will be dropped automatically once any version of Ubuntu reach its EOL (End Of Life).

Run this command to check if NVIDIA driver is loaded :

nvidia-smi

If you see command not found or ERROR: Unable to load the 'nvidia-drm' kernel module, disable Secure Boot on BIOS/UEFI settings should fix the issue.

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