30% performance boost by manually installing (proprietary)driver

[Gps4l]

This is the proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver section of the forum.

You're right , only notice this now you mentioned it.

[synaptix]

He asked if anybody else noticed a difference by manual installing the closed source drivers.
He did not use the word nvidia in that sentence.

Feel free to ignore my reply, if you're only interested in nvidia though.

This is the proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver section of the forum.

[RealNC]

He asked if anybody else noticed a difference by manual installing the closed source drivers.
He did not use the word nvidia in that sentence.

Look at the forum section of this thread. It's "NVIDIA Linux".

[Gps4l]

Er, how is that related to the discussion?

He asked if anybody else noticed a difference by manual installing the closed source drivers.
He did not use the word nvidia in that sentence.

Feel free to ignore my reply, if you're only interested in nvidia though.

[RealNC]

Sounds like a packaging bug. This should be reported to Ubuntu's bug tracker.

[duby229]

Bologna.... mmmm deep fried bologna..... mmmmm twinkies

EDIT: Sorry I just love deep frying things. mmmmm deep fried bacon.... mmmmm waffle batter....

[peppercats]

I use an amd card and all I can say no.

hd5750

Er, how is that related to the discussion?

I'd like to see some benchmarks via the Phoronix Test Suite rather than just off hand statistics. I'm calling bologna.

I'd like to see it too, I saw it based on personal experience only and I'm too lazy to run benchmarks on my own.

[computerquip]

I'd like to see some benchmarks via the Phoronix Test Suite rather than just off hand statistics. I'm calling bologna.

[Gps4l]

I got an interesting tip from a friend to manually install my nvidia driver instead of using the ones that come with my distribution.(In fact, I actually used the xorg-edgers driver for this test just to get equivalent versions)

After a few runs of the unigine valley benchmark on "Extreme HD" settings, I averaged 20.6 FPS.
I manually installed the 319.32 drivers from the Nvidia download, and then ran the benchmark again. I got a 26.8 FPS average, a ~30% increase.

I thought this was an interesting(probably well known, but unknown to me) tidbit. Has anyone else seen similar performance increases by manually installing their drivers?

edit:
probably worth mentioning I use a GTX-660.

I use an amd card and all I can say no.

hd5750

[synaptix]

Wait... what? How is this possible?