Nouveau Reclocking: Buggy, But Can Boost Performance

Published on January 30, 2012
Written by Michael Larabel
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The frame-rate for Doom 3 on the GeForce GT 220 shoots up by 32%, but it is still a ways off from the NVIDIA driver. This was a stock Mesa build without S3TC or floating-point textures.

The Nouveau Lightsmark performance went up by 47%.

The Warsow frame-rate goes up by 32%.

The OpenArena frame-rate is up by 30%, which puts the open-source Nouveau driver as running at almost 90% the speed of the official NVIDIA Linux binary GPU driver.

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