The developers of the Arch distribution Linux NVIDIA announced the replacement of the proprietary NVIDIA driver packages "nvidia," "nvidia-dkms," and "nvidia-lts" with the packages "nvidia-open," "nvidia-open-dkms," and "nvidia-lts-open," which use NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules. This decision is driven by the NVIDIA 590.x drivers retaining support only for GPUs starting with the Turing microarchitecture (RTX 20xx and GTX 1650 series). This makes it pointless to maintain the proprietary version of the modules in the official repositories, the primary reason for which was to maintain support for older GPUs.
Open modules support only GPUs equipped with a GSP (GPU System Processor) microcontroller, which offloads GPU initialization and control operations from the driver to proprietary firmware. The GSP is included in graphics cards based on microarchitectures such as Turing, Ampere, Ada, and Hopper.
Graphics cards based on the Pascal and Maxwell microarchitectures, as well as older GPUs, are not supported in open kernel modules. Therefore, users with older GPUs are advised to uninstall the nvidia, nvidia-lts, or nvidia-dkms packages and switch to the legacy driver branch, distributed in the AUR repository as the nvidia-580xx-dkms package. Users of Turing and newer GPUs will be automatically migrated to open kernel module packages (simply install the updates with the "pacman -Syu" command).
Source: opennet.ru
