Nouveau Re-Clocked With DRM-Next Linux 4.12 + Mesa 17.2-dev vs. NVIDIA 381 Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 27 April 2017 at 05:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 3 Comments.
Nouveau Reclocking DRM-Next 4.12

While the performance goes up a lot when re-clocked to the highest performance state, the Nouveau driver on older Kepler and GM107 hardware still comes up well short of the NVIDIA proprietary driver.

Nouveau Reclocking DRM-Next 4.12

The Dota 2 Nouveau results were particularly poor.

Nouveau Reclocking DRM-Next 4.12

In some benchmarks, the GTX 780 Ti appears more competitive on Nouveau against the NVIDIA binary driver than the GTX 750 Ti.

Nouveau Reclocking DRM-Next 4.12

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