NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers With Linux 3.18 + Mesa 10.4-devel

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 November 2014 at 09:56 AM EST. Page 3 of 3. 17 Comments.
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Valve Steam On Linux Gaming

The power consumption is also much greater as expected due to the re-clocking and hitting the highest performance states.

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Valve Steam On Linux Gaming

The Team Fortress 2 results aren't very different from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive numbers. The Kepler GPUs on Nouveau were generally running a bit more than half the speed of the NVIDIA 346.16 binary driver. The only GPU tested that successfully re-clocked under Nouveau to the highest performance state was the GeForce GTX 650 and there it was a difference between 87 and 109 FPS.

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