Open-Source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" 3D Driver Performance

More serious OpenGL games like Tomb Raider were not working with the NVC0 Gallium3D driver on the GeForce RTX 2060/2080 but obviously work great on the proprietary driver.

While it's nice that there is now open-source support for the GeForce RTX 2000 series with hardware acceleration, it's really not practical just like the GTX 900 Maxwell cards and newer for this open-source driver until the re-clocking / power management obstacle is ultimately solved. Even then the lack of a Vulkan driver makes it increasingly impractical for Linux gamers.

But as the open-source NVIDIA driver support progresses, there will certainly be continued testing at Phoronix along with all of our other coverage. For those with NVIDIA Turing (or Maxwell / Pascal / Volta), the official but proprietary NVIDIA Linux driver is still the way to go for being able to see feature parity and performance to the NVIDIA Windows driver.

If you want to use the open-source NVIDIA driver, the best option is the GeForce GTX 700 series that do not require any signed firmware binaries to function and do allow manual re-clocking for at least offering the best performance possible today off the Nouveau driver. Ultimately though I am suspecting there will be an improvement soon for recent generations of NVIDIA GPUs on Nouveau as with this re-clocking limitation being known for years it's still not clear why Red Hat would be investing so much engineering resources over the past 2~3 years into getting Nouveau suitable for OpenCL/compute while being fully aware of this major road-block. Stay tuned.