Open-Source Nouveau Driver Remains Slow For NVIDIA's Fermi, Kepler

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Open-Source Nouveau Driver Remains Slow For NVIDIA's Fermi, Kepler: After last week publishing a Linux review of the GeForce GTX 650 using the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver, I set out to run a new performance comparison of the open-source "Nouveau" graphics driver against NVIDIA's official closed-source Linux driver. In this comparison, five different GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" and GeForce 600 "Kepler" graphics cards were benchmarked under Ubuntu Linux on each driver.