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

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 29 October 2013 at 11:56 AM EDT. Page 2 of 6. Add A Comment.
GeForce Kepler / Fermi Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux

To no real surprise given past Fermi and Kepler benchmark results on Phoronix, the NVIDIA binary blob is running many times faster in general than Nouveau.

GeForce Kepler / Fermi Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux
GeForce Kepler / Fermi Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux

Hopefully Fermi/Kepler re-clocking support will come soon to Nouveau, but it doesn't look like it will end up being ready in time for the Linux 3.13 kernel, so it would still be several more months until seeing it in Linux 3.14 at the earliest.

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