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## Versioning Mess
I did not find much information about Nvidia driver version structure and policy. Still I concluded that they use following pattern.
Their drivers are oranized in **driver branches**. As you see for example in their [Unix Driver Archive](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/) noted as e.g. `470.xx series`.
There are `Production` and `New Feature` branches (and, on the above linked page, a `Beta Version` which is not linked to any of the above branches (yet?).
Such a branch can be considered a major release and with new braches adding support for new hardware or removing support for old hardware.
The drivers within a branch are maintained quite a long time. Individual drivers in that branch get increasing version numbers which just start with the same first "branch" number.
In the RPM repo there are more branches available than listed in the [Unix Driver Archive](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/). It is not possible to find out retrospectively to what type of branch it belongs. Also it is not possible to find out from the package meta information if a driver is considered beta or not. That you only find out by googling "Nvidia $DRIVER_VERSION" and looking at the respective driver page. In my experience the first few driver versions of a branch are usually "beta".
To figure out what driver branch to use for given hardware, go to their [Download page](https://www.nvidia.de/Download/index.aspx) and search its Linux driver. It will then point out a driver version and its first number points out the driver branch to use. Note that this is not always the full story. For example the Tesla K40c gives [driver 460.106.00](https://www.nvidia.de/Download/driverResults.aspx/182244/en-us), where as the 470 branch driver still works, though the [470 driver](https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/194637/en-us/) still works, even though the hardware is not listed as supported there.
## Manual Operation