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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 reference

An RTX 2080 reference with explicit distinctions between vendor module policy, GSP documentation and Nouveau binding.

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  1. Overview & identity
  2. Driver & binding
  3. Firmware
  4. Read-only diagnostics
  5. Limitations & related issues
  6. References

Overview & identity

The selected unqualified NVIDIA row maps 1E82 to GeForce RTX 2080. The README contains additional RTX 2080 IDs, including restricted subsystem rows; those are not silently added to this profile. A match establishes this reference device label, not an exact partner board.

Curated identifiers
pci 10de:1e82

A numeric match establishes a candidate family within the reviewed evidence. Marketing names, board variants, subsystem conditions and successful operation remain separate questions.

Driver & binding

NVIDIAs reviewed module-flavor documentation explains the Turing-and-later boundary for open kernel modules and their GSP dependency. The actual flavor still needs runtime evidence. The in-tree Nouveau path is a distinct implementation, and a vendor GSP filename must not be treated as a universal Nouveau requirement.

  • nouveau — kernel driver/module candidate
  • nvidia — kernel driver/module candidate

Detected, bound, operational: learn the difference

Firmware

Device/revision dependent

The checked vendor documentation locates GSP files under nvidia/580.95.05/ and gives gsp_tu10x.bin as one architecture-named example. That example is not a declaration that this particular card requests the Turing image. Exact selection depends on the active driver release and architecture; Nouveau has a separate firmware path.

Inspect firmware packaging on your distribution

Read-only diagnostics

Run one displayed command at a time. Replace uppercase placeholders with the affected device, interface or module from your own output. Commands are never executed here. Read-only output can still contain private identifiers.

Read the numeric PCI identity and binding

lspci -nnk -s BDF

Replace BDF with the address of the GeForce RTX 2080 display function. No sudo is normally required for this summary. The numeric vendor/device pair is the evidence for identity; “Kernel driver in use” is evidence of the current binding. A “Kernel modules” list is only a list of candidates.

Confirm the owner of this PCI function

readlink /sys/bus/pci/devices/BDF/driver

Use the full domain:bus:slot.function address in BDF, for example the form shown by lspci -D. This read-only symlink normally needs no elevated privileges. Its last component names the bound driver. An absent link can also mean an unbound, removed or guest-assigned function; it does not prove that no Linux driver exists.

Read initialization and failure context

journalctl -k -b --no-pager

Keep nvidia/NVRM and Nouveau messages separate and correlate them with the selected PCI function; an Xid is a runtime error report, not a driver-installation verdict. This reads the current boot only. Correlate the PCI address and timestamps before connecting a message to this GPU. Journal access depends on local group permissions; a permission error is not a hardware result.

Read the vendor-driver userspace observation

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=pci.bus_id,name,driver_version --format=csv

This read-only query requires the NVIDIA userspace utility and a working NVIDIA driver connection, but normally no sudo. Match the returned PCI bus ID to BDF. A missing command or a driver/library error is distinct from an absent GPU; this query is not suitable for a Nouveau-only binding.

Limitations & related issues

A loaded module does not identify its open/proprietary flavor or successful firmware initialization. The referenced README is versioned 580.95.05; it is evidence for that document, not a recommendation that the machine install that release.

These guides are linked for relevant observations, not as known defects of every device in this family.

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References

Source review records a checked implementation or document, not a reproduced hardware test. Version-specific tables do not establish a minimum kernel or guaranteed operation.