NVIDIA Releases OpenGL 4.0 Drivers
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NVIDIA released Linux and WHQL-certified drivers yesterday that fully support OpenGL 4.0 on GeForce GTX 480/470 video cards. NVIDIA also now supports OpenGL 3.3 on all other G80-based GPUs or higher. Additionally, NVIDIA released eight new OpenGL extensions offering even more advanced capabilities to developers using OpenGL 4.
The new features in OpenGL 4 require a Fermi GPU. Thus OpenGL 4 is not supported on NV3x, NV4x, G7x, G8x nor GT2xx hardware. This means you need one of the following a Fermi based GPU in order to run OpenGL 4.
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