Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti listed as NVIDIA Graphics Device in nvidia-smi

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello,
i have a PC with Ubuntu 24.04, and i have a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070ti.
I struggled a lot to get the drivers installed and get the 5070ti to be recognized.
But i managed to do it with a youtube tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5deOXLDpZw

In general, there were two approach in order to install the drivers:

  • with apt
  • with the .run file of the driver

I have tried these two methods(apt and from .run file). and i either have an issue that stopped the installation of the driver

I also tried this method

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt update
# goto tty3 by ctrl+alt+F3 now!
sudo systemctl stop gdm3
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-570
# choose MIT license one, the prioritory one can not detect 5070ti now!
reboot

But my PC put a black screen, with a single white _ flashing, for many hours without anything happened

I searched this forum for cases like mine:

The best results i got is with the installation from a .run file and the version 570.144.

The driver is installed, but when i run nvidia-smi, this i what i get:


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.144                Driver Version: 570.144        CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA Graphics Device         Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   29C    P8              7W /  180W |      13MiB /  16311MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A           39577      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                      2MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

In many tutorials or installation instead of NVIDIA Graphics Device there is the name of the graphic card.
So i wanted to know what i need to do in order to get the name of my graphic card instead of NVIDIA Graphics Device .

I’ve seen this post

Where it says it’s a cosmetic bug with early drivers.
So i wanted to know:

  • how to get my graphic card name showing
  • how to make sure that it’s installed without issues

Also i’ve seen in the 570 release feedback that the drivers are installed by default in ubuntu 25.04.
My install is fresh and i have nothing on my pc, is it better to install Ubuntu 25.04 ?

Thanks a lot in advance

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Just got same issue with my 5060ti and Ubuntu20.04. The thing is that the driver 570 and cuda 12.8 can recognize another 4060ti on my computer but not the 5060ti. Tried to install cuda 12.9 with driver 575 and recoginization is solved. However 12.9 and 575 result in that vulkan cannot be properly used. Also tried to install 575 on 12.8 manually but monitor is all black after exiting desktop env and install by mti lisence version.

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  • Solved

My 10 days of experience with 5070 Ti was disastrous. So, I decided to write the reply for several forum hoping it helps others.

my system AMD Threadripper pro on Supermicro MB smoothly running with RTX 3060 Ti on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. I am adding RTX 5070 Ti to the machine.

  • Issues #1:
    Connecting 5070 Ti broke down bios start! It was bios incompatibility.
    solution=> Above 4 G decoding “ENABLED” and PCIe spread spectrum “ENABLED” started the bios .. but

  • Issue #2:
    With bios system code 91 machine stuck in restart loop. I guess driver issue now! So, I disconnected the new 5070 Ti but 3060 Ti. Updated the Nvidia driver to 570 as Nvidia driver download selection shows it is the best compatible driver. Connect 5070 Ti and restart. Machine starts fine but it only detects 3060 Ti but not the 5070 Ti ! Now I don’t have any better idea to solve it! Many people in online forums complained that new RTX 50 series with Linux systems are not functioning in many ways. I started searching which Linux distro supports the Nvidia GPUs best and Pop OS seems a good choice and I wanted debian.
    solution=> ditched Ubuntu and installed Pop OS stable build on 22.04 LTS. And demo OS from USB can detect both 3060 Ti and 5070 Ti! New Pop OS found both the GPUs. Yay!! :D

  • Issue #3:
    After few days OS package manager showed updated Nvidia driver available in store - v575.57.08. I thought that would be better and hit install! Bummer-- my monitor went dark and hard restart came with a blinking cursor black screen after bios pass! So, driver update screwed the both 3060 Ti and 5070 Ti perhaps through kernel/X11 run conflict! I connect the monitor with VGA port, machine restarts but $nvidia-smi fails and no GPU detectable though $lshw shows hardware is connected. Even timeshift restore could not solve the driver debacle! Simple Nvidia driver uninstallation and reinstaling the Pop OS nvidia driver packages do not solve the sticky problem!
    Multi-steps solution=> uninstall all Nvidia drivers, purge any trace of Nvidia driver or any library [$ sudo apt-get purge ‘nvidia’ $sudo apt remove --purge '^nvidia-.']. Remove any residual configuration [$sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | awk ‘/^rc/{print $2}’)]. And make sure that no trace of previous failed driver/library/process/modules/settings/daemons/startup service remains in the system by checking that following commands give no output [$nvidia-smi $find /usr/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -name ‘nvidia’ $lsof /dev/nvidia $lsmod | grep nvidia $which nvidia-settings $ps aux | grep -i nvidia $systemctl list-units | grep -i nvidia] . Now restart and install the Pop OS System76 drivers and System76 Nvidia drivers from here System76 Driver (Install) - System76 Support
    I haven’t tried but in principle this should work for any devian - Ubuntu, Mint system. And according to the System76 web there is option for Arch and Fedora too.

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Ultra important to install nvidia-driver-570-open (from Ubuntu repos 25.04 and probably same deal with 24.04) for this specific video card (the non-open as mentioned on the OP are incompatible with 50xx video cards).

I also had to enable on nvidia-settings → PRIME Profiles → NVIDIA (Performance Mode) to have decent FPS.