Today, Nvidia is on top of the new OpenGL 3.1 standard with the release of the first developer beta drivers to support the new open standard API. The drivers are compatible with both Windows and Linux at the moment and support a wide range of Quadro cards as well as the desktop Geforce 8 series and higher, including any ION based products.

According to Nvidia, the driver implements all of GLSL 1.30, OpenGL 3.0, OpenGL 3.1, and GLSL 1.40 except for the following functionality:

- The std140, column_major and row_major layout qualifiers in GLSL 1.40
- The API call BindBufferRange() ignores the <offset> and <size> parameters. In other words, BindBufferRange() behaves the same as BindBufferBase()

The company has commented on functionality support and has stated that it understands certain features on the above list are critical to the business of a large part of its customer base. As a compromise, it will provide full performance, and will support, tune, and fix any issues, for any feature on the deprecated list. For developers, this means that all the functionality in the ARB_compatibility extension will continue to operate at maximum performance.

The release notes and drivers can be downloaded here.