GeForce GTX 750 Series: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 4 May 2015 at 01:25 PM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 13 Comments.
NVIDIA GTX 750 Maxwell Nouveau

To no surprise given the lack of re-clocking, the Nouveau driver performance is multiple times slower than the official NVIDIA binary driver.

NVIDIA GTX 750 Maxwell Nouveau
NVIDIA GTX 750 Maxwell Nouveau

Given the Kepler and Fermi re-clocking still leaves a lot to be desired, it will probably be quite a while before re-clocking is all figured out for Maxwell on this unofficial open-source driver.


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