NVIDIA's Linux Driver Saw Some Nice Performance Gains In 2018

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA's Linux Driver Saw Some Nice Performance Gains In 2018

The open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver stack saw some nice RADV Vulkan performance improvements over the course of this year as well as to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver performance, but how did the NVIDIA Linux driver stack perform this year for gaming? Here are some benchmarks showing it too saw some nice Linux gaming performance boosts this year with subsequent driver updates.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=27334

[rene]

Linux driver aka nouveau? Just asking for a friend ;-)

[Kemosabe]

It sucks so hard that their driver is closed. CUDA and their company policy disgusts me.

[lectrode]

Linux driver aka nouveau? Just asking for a friend ;-)

These benchmarks are for Nvidia's proprietary driver for Linux, not Nouveau (which is the open-source driver for Linux).

[rene]

These benchmarks are for Nvidia's proprietary driver for Linux, not Nouveau (which is the open-source driver for Linux).

I know, that was a funny reminder that I do not care at all about binary only blob drivers, … ;-)