Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev vs. NVIDIA OpenGL Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 October 2016 at 09:48 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 54 Comments.
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA

The GeForce GTX 680 with Nouveau once re-clocked can perform pretty decent in a number of OpenGL Linux games when considering it's a reverse-engineered, community-driven driver.

Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA

Not even Xonotic can run out-of-the-box on Nouveau with decent frame-rates.

Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA

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