Supported Video Cards

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This page is meant to provide a list of those video cards that are known to have good OpenGL support to run the latest versions of FlightGear, based on contents taken from Hardware Recommendations. Note that this doesn't mean that with all of these cards you can run FlightGear with details and effects at the maximum level, but only that, if they're powerful enough, they could.

Please help maintain this list so that fellow FlightGear users can more easily make hardware decisions.

For Linux and *nix users

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Graphic Cards recommended for FlightGear 3.x+

Intel

• Iris Pro Graphics 5200

NVIDIA

• Quadro K6000
• Quadro K5200
• Quadro K5000
• Quadro K4200
• Quadro K2200
• Quadro K620
• GeForce GT 520
• GeForce GTX TITAN series
• GeForce GTX 780 Ti
• GeForce GTX 780
• GeForce GTX 770
• GeForce GTX 760
• GeForce GTX 690
• GeForce GTX 680
• GeForce GTX 670
• GeForce GTX 660 Ti
• GeForce GTX 660
• GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
• GeForce GTX 590
• GeForce GTX 580

AMD/ATI

• FirePro W9100
• FirePro W8100
• FirePro W7100
• FirePro W5100
• FirePro V7900
• FirePro V5900
• Radeon HD 8870M
• Radeon HD 8750M
• Radeon HD 7870M
• Radeon HD 7770M
• Radeon HD 6970M
• Mobility Radeon HD 5870
• Radeon R5/R7/R9 series
• Radeon™ HD 7990
• Radeon™ HD 7970
• Radeon™ HD 7950
• Radeon™ HD 7870 XT
• Radeon™ HD 7870
• Radeon™ HD 7850
• Radeon™ HD 7790
• Radeon™ HD 7750
• Radeon™ HD 7730
• Radeon™ HD 6990
• Radeon™ HD 6970
• Radeon™ HD 6950
• Radeon™ HD 6930
• Radeon™ HD 5970
• Radeon™ HD 5870
• Radeon™ HD 5850
• Radeon™ HD 5830
• Radeon™ HD 5670 (with free radeon driver, kernel 3.13, Mesa 10.1)

External links

• Comparison of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units
• Comparison of ATI Graphics Processing Units
• Comparison of Intel graphics processing units

Related content

• Graphics drivers configuration
• Troubleshooting performance issues