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Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux vs. NVIDIA Windows 8.1

The GeForce 9800GT is much faster than the GTX 460 with the current Nouveau code since the Fermi GPU has extremely low boot clock frequencies of a 50MHz core and 135MHz video memory while the 9800GT has a 399MHz core and video memory clock speed.