The Ongoing Work Of Nouveau Power Management / Re-Clocking

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The Ongoing Work Of Nouveau Power Management / Re-Clocking

In addition to the Nouveau status update talk at XDC2016, Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst had carried out an additional presentation on Friday dedicated to this open-source NVIDIA driver's work on power management and re-clocking...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XDC2016-Nouveau-PM

[s_j_newbury]

I wish NVIDIA would just get behind nouveau like AMD did for radeon/amdgpu. Nouveau is a really good driver, it just has no way of having sufficient coverage of hardware due to lack of information from NVIDIA. The nouveau developers have done a terrific job of understanding how the GPUs are supposed to work, but every card has its quirks, and only NVIDIA knows what they are. It does look like some Kepler, early Maxwell cards

[s_j_newbury]

oops! Was going to say: ... It does look like most Kepler, and early Maxwell cards are going to work well though.