Nouveau Driver Power Management Against The NVIDIA Blob

[jcgeny]

these benchmarks have not so much sense as you check only what can do the not official driver .
may be checking changes in the kernel to make the ati/nv card less consuming with the official driver is a better useful thing to do ;']

[werfu]

Could you try to run this on a laptop? My Thinkpad T61p with the Quadro 570FX battery life was quite shorter when using nouveau instead of the binary blob. If the newer version is better I could consider switching back. BTW, you should add playing a Flash video to the test, it suck ups battery like nothing!

[Cyborg16]

Looks like nouveau power consumption is coming along nicely — or else that it's just not very significant compared to that of a whole desktop machine anyway (only reading idle and DVD-playback graphs; power usage during games is a bit hard to compare when performance is so different).

[FireBurn]

Just a quick bug report for your PTS Graph Generator

It should be Less is Better and More is Better not Less are Better and More are Better

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau Driver Power Management Against The NVIDIA Blob

Following last week's completion of the Radeon driver power management tests against the AMD Catalyst driver, now it is time to turn the tables on NVIDIA. In this article are some power consumption and thermal tests when comparing the latest open-source "Nouveau" driver code against NVIDIA's closed-source proprietary driver.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=16195