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Nouveau 2D Still Has Room For Improvement

The Render Bench result was at least close between NVIDIA and Nouveau.

For the micro-benchmarking of GTK widgets, the Nouveau code from the end of January was still a bit slower than the official NVIDIA Linux driver.