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NVIDIA is Article description::a popular graphical chipset manufacturer. NVIDIA GPUs can use either open source (x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau) or proprietary (closed source) drivers (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers). Because it is more up-to-date and efficient, the proprietary driver is often seen as a must-have for more computationally intensive 3D applications and games.

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NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers — The x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers package contains the proprietary graphics driver for NVIDIA graphic cards.
Nouveau — the open source driver for NVIDIA graphic cards.
NVIDIA/Optimus — a proprietary technology that seamlessly switches between two GPUs.
NVIDIA/Bumblebee — an open source implementation of NVIDIA Optimus.
Nouveau & nvidia-drivers switching — describes how to switch between NVIDIA's binary driver and the open source nouveau driver.

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