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

[phoronix]

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

As a continuation of the Is The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Fast Enough For Steam On Linux Gaming? article from earlier this week, here's the results of the latest NVIDIA Linux proprietary graphics driver compared to the Linux 3.18 + Mesa 10.4-devel graphics driver stack when running two of Valve's most popular Steam on Linux gamers.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21163

[johnc]

inb4 "50% fps is good enough!" comments

[Veske]

The power consumption on Nouveau gaming is pretty scary. The numbers shown are really high...

[Modu]

Considering nVidia's proprietary graphics drivers Linux performance on par with its Windows performance, is it just me or GTX 650 on Nouveau driver with proper reclocking performs even better than radeon counterparts? oO

[Dukenukemx]

That's not too bad considering that Nvidia doesn't lend the same effort and AMD does. Is this still with clock speeds not at max?

[curaga]

Requesting the grouping of boxplots again. Would be much more readable if the boxplots were also grouped by card and colored, like the scores.

[Fracta1L]

Nouveau is still unusable.

[Tgui]

Nouveau is still unusable.

In all ways unusable?

[brosis]

inb4 "50% fps is good enough!" comments

bad forecast,
rainy, 80% probability of "fuck you, nvidia" comments.

[Apopas]

Exactly this minute I'm reading this benchmark, I'm building an old P4 system with Geforce 6200 by pure coincidence
Xubuntu 14.10 with Nouveau seems to run great on it so far.