Nouveau 2D Still Has Room For Improvement

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 15 February 2012 at 05:32 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 4 Comments.
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro

The Nouveau driver has much room to improve when it comes to cairo-perf-trace with the Xlib back-end compared to the NVIDIA binary driver being many times faster.

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Quadro

The x11perf application also indicates room for improvement.


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