Linux 2.6.38 To Linux 3.2 Nouveau DRM Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 25 November 2011 at 01:37 PM EST. Page 2 of 3. 9 Comments.
Nouveau DRM Comparison To 3.2

The Nouveau Gallium3D driver in Mesa 7.12-devel regresses for Nexuiz that the game completely fails. Nexuiz worked a few weeks ago for this NVIDIA mobile GPU and Mesa, but now it is borked. As a result, nothing to see here for the Linux kernel DRM benchmarks.

Nouveau DRM Comparison To 3.2

Lightsmark was also buggy, but compared to Linux 3.0, the latest 3.2 Git offers up a small performance boost.

Nouveau DRM Comparison To 3.2

When looking at the VDrift OpenGL racing game, the DRM-related performance boosts for the NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M mobile graphics processor come between Linux 2.6.38 and 2.6.39, and then again between Linux 3.0 and Linux 3.1. The Linux 3.2 kernel does not improve the Nouveau performance for this hardware.


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