Linux 2D Performance: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 June 2014 at 06:30 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 27 Comments.
NVIDIA 2D GPU Benchmarks
NVIDIA 2D GPU Benchmarks
NVIDIA 2D GPU Benchmarks

NVIDIA's 337.25 proprietary driver swept the board when it came to the QGears2 benchmarks with the X RENDER back-end. Besides the proprietary NVIDIA driver being much better staffed than the community-based Nouveau driver, contributing to the tougher time for the Nouveau driver is the open-source driver being stuck to running at a lower frequency due to its current lack of re-clocking.


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