Nouveau Driver Power Management Against The NVIDIA Blob

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 July 2011 at 10:23 AM EDT. Page 6 of 7. 14 Comments.

Lastly are the results when running the Nexuiz OpenGL game at 1920 x 1080.

The proprietary NVIDIA driver is obviously much faster than Nouveau on Gallium3D.

Interestingly, using the NVIDIA driver caused the CPU usage to be much elevated compared to Nouveau when running the Nexuiz game.


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