nouveau : Nouveau is the open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs.radeonsi : for AMD's Southern Island GPUs and later.r600 : for AMD's Radeon R600 GPUs up to Northern Islands.mesa is the up-to-date Mesa package which includes most of the modern drivers for newer hardware:.There are two Mesa packages, each with a distinct set of drivers: Mesa also provides software rasterizers, such as llvmpipe. It has a collection of open-source drivers for Intel graphics, AMD (formerly ATI) and NVIDIA GPUs. Mesa is an open-source OpenGL implementation, continually updated to support the latest OpenGL specification. To find the code-name of an NVIDIA GPU, check the code-name list from the Nouveau project.To find the family of an AMD (and ATI) GPU, check Wikipedia:List of AMD graphics processing units#Features overview.Intel's Gen N hardware does not refer to the generation of the CPU, it refers to the generation of the GPU, which is different from the generation of the CPU.
