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I am looking for a way to check if a video card supports a technology. Either using an Open Source driver or a proprietary one, how can I check to see what video technologies a video card can handle. For example:

  • Pixel Shader Version
  • OpenGL Version
  • OpenGL ES Version
  • HDMI / DVI/ VGA Output
  • GPU Speed
  • Amount of Memory (Either On CPU, Board or PCIe card)
  • Any other characteristics and video technologies that can be extracted from the video card.

For example, I have 2 computers. One has an Intel CPU with HD4000 using the open source drivers. The other one has an NVIDIA 560 ti video card using the 325 NVIDIA proprietary drivers. How can I see the mentioned characteristics for each of them.

Luis Alvarado
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Install Google Chrome and go to URL chrome://gpu

Report generated looks like this:

Graphics Feature Status

Canvas: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
3D CSS: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
CSS Animation: Accelerated
Flash 3D: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable
Flash Stage3D: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Unavailable. Hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL multisampling: Hardware accelerated
Texture Sharing: Hardware accelerated
Video: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
WebGL: Hardware accelerated

Problems Detected

Accelerated 2d canvas is unstable in Linux at the moment
Stage3D is not supported on Linux: 129848
Accelerated video decode is unavailable on Mac and Linux: 137247, 133828
NVIDIA linux drivers are unstable when using multiple Open GL contexts and with low memory: 145600

Driver Bug Workarounds

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Version Information

Driver Information

solution found here: https://askubuntu.com/a/217481/9881

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