Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIA's Official Driver
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 4 January 2013. Page 3 of 5. 107 Comments

Nouveau has been in development for many years now, but it's still not close to catching up with the NVIDIA binary driver in serious competition. The latest GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" and GeForce 600 "Kepler" graphics cards have zero re-clocking support upstream at this point.

More of the same: Nouveau losing out to NVIDIA's binary blob.

The Reaction Quake 3 results were a bit surprising with a smaller margin by which the NVIDIA binary driver was winning.


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