OpenGL 4.3 Lands For Maxwell With Nouveau Gallium3D, Plus 1.5~3.5x Performance Boost

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenGL 4.3 Lands For Maxwell With Nouveau Gallium3D, Plus 1.5~3.5x Performance Boost

It should be a busy end of week for Mesa with the Mesa 17.0 feature freeze being this weekend. In addition to Haswell hitting OpenGL 4.2, Nouveau's NVC0 Gallium3D driver has enabled OpenGL 4.3 support for newer Maxwell and Pascal hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVC0-Maxwell-Pascal-GL43-Lands

[imirkin]

While no reclocking is available on GM20x GPUs (generally the desktop GTX 950+ series and higher-end mobile chips) due to NVIDIA not releasing the signed firmware to control fans, kernel 4.10 allows reclocking of GM10x GPUs (GTX 750/750 Ti, and an assortment of mobile chips including some like the 960M).

[nazar-pc]

So many news recently. Each day is a new reason to re-run benchmarks
Sadly I still prefer hi-end Nvidia GPUs with proprietary driver, since AMD doesn't have GPUs for solid 4k gaming yet.
Hopefully, this might change in 2017.

[pete910]

Sadly I still prefer hi-end Nvidia GPUs with proprietary driver, since AMD doesn't have GPUs for solid 4k gaming yet.

Nor does Nvidia

[cj.wijtmans]

Nor does Nvidia

high end nvidia cards are the closest thing though. also my laptop has a mid-tier mobile nvidia card and it plays a lot of games on 4k. and streams them to a tv with steam link. on windows10 though. But my linux desktop could do the same if i had a 4k monitor. not on ultra but i never play on ultra anyway. Wanted to get an upgrade for playing ultra on HD but not worth it to upgrade yet.

[Sonadow]

What's the current firmware state like? I'm guessing it's:

- Kepler: Nouveau generates its own firmware
- Maxwell: Signed firmware released by Nvidia but without reclocking
- Pascal: No firmware yet.

[Vasten5]

Where request this firmware? Nvidia 1050

[Vasten5]

Where request this firmware? I have NVidia 1050

[Vasten5]

Where firmware request? I have NVidia 1050

[karolherbst]

What's the current firmware state like? I'm guessing it's:

- Kepler: Nouveau generates its own firmware
- Maxwell: Signed firmware released by Nvidia but without reclocking
- Pascal: No firmware yet.

Maxwell GM10x uses nouveau firmware as well and has reclocking support only Maxwell GM20x has the signed firmware situation.