Nouveau

Nouveau is the open-source NVIDIA graphics driver that has been in development for years as a community-based, reverse-engineered implementation of NVIDIA's closed-source Linux graphics driver. NVIDIA took a neutral stance on Nouveau until 2013 when it began supporting the project with limited code and documentation beginning to appear. Nouveau consists of an open-source kernel DRM driver, Gallium3D drivers, and xf86-video-nouveau DDX.

Additional Information: nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki

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Nouveau Articles & Reviews

NVIDIA 470 EOL Drivers For Kepler Still Obliterating...   Display Drivers   30 Jun 2021
Open-Source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing"...   Display Drivers   22 Jun 2020
The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver...   Display Drivers   25 Dec 2019
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Linux...   Display Drivers   10 Dec 2018
The NVIDIA vs. Open-Source Nouveau Linux Driver...   Display Drivers   14 Jun 2018
Clear Linux Now Offers Radeon Mesa Graphics Support,...   Operating Systems   02 Jun 2018
Nouveau Linux 4.14 + Mesa 17.4-dev vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   05 Nov 2017
Nouveau Re-Clocked With DRM-Next Linux 4.12 + Mesa...   Display Drivers   27 Apr 2017
Trying Out Nouveau's Accelerated Pascal Support With...   Display Drivers   25 Apr 2017
Mesa 13.0 vs. 17.0 Performance For RADV/RadeonSI: Big...   Display Drivers   09 Feb 2017
Nouveau Maxwell: Mesa 17.0 + Linux 4.10 vs. NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   22 Jan 2017
Mesa Git Delivering Faster Intel Vulkan Performance,...   Display Drivers   16 Jan 2017
A Look At The Huge Performance Boosts With Nouveau...   Display Drivers   15 Jan 2017
AMD & NVIDIA: Open vs. Closed-Source Driver...   Display Drivers   09 Jan 2017
Open-Source Nouveau Linux 4.10 + NvBoost vs. NVIDIA...   Display Drivers   07 Jan 2017
Testing Nouveau's Open-Source NVIDIA Support On Linux...   Display Drivers   05 Jan 2017
Radeon vs. Nouveau Open-Source Drivers On Mesa Git +...   Graphics Cards   21 Oct 2016
Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev vs. NVIDIA OpenGL...   Display Drivers   14 Oct 2016
Nouveau Open-Source NVIDIA Tests On Linux 4.8, Mesa...   Display Drivers   23 Aug 2016
Nouveau With Boost Patches Are Now Competitive To...   Display Drivers   20 Apr 2016
Nouveau "Boost" Patches Show Much...   Display Drivers   16 Apr 2016
Nouveau Kepler On Linux 4.6 vs. NVIDIA's 364...   Display Drivers   04 Apr 2016
Nouveau Kepler vs. Maxwell Performance On Linux 4.6 +...   Display Drivers   30 Mar 2016
The NVIDIA GTX 900 Series Performance On The...   Display Drivers   28 Mar 2016
Radeon vs. Nouveau Gallium3D Driver Performance On...   Display Drivers   13 Feb 2016
Nouveau Linux 4.5 vs. NVIDIA OpenGL Performance:...   Display Drivers   10 Feb 2016
The Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Continued Evolving...   Display Drivers   28 Dec 2015
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Linux Driver Performance With Extra...   Display Drivers   22 Dec 2015
Radeon DRM Linux 4.4 + Mesa 11.1 + DRI3 vs. AMD's...   Display Drivers   29 Nov 2015
AMDGPU With PowerPlay Compared To AMD's Catalyst Linux...   Display Drivers   27 Nov 2015
How Nouveau Compares To NVIDIA's Linux Driver When...   Display Drivers   27 Nov 2015
Early Radeon vs. Nouveau OpenGL Tests On Linux 4.4   Display Drivers   23 Nov 2015
Nouveau Kepler Re-Clocking Is Working A Lot Better On...   Display Drivers   20 Nov 2015
The Graphics Cards On Open-Source Linux Drivers With...   Graphics Cards   15 Sep 2015
Trying Out The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Driver...   Display Drivers   10 Sep 2015
Open-Source Mesa Drivers Now Supporting OpenGL 4.0+   Display Drivers   23 Jul 2015
NVIDIA's 352 Linux Driver Against Linux 4.1 With...   Display Drivers   11 Jul 2015
GeForce GTX 750 Series: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux...   Display Drivers   04 May 2015
Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Tests On Linux 3.19   Display Drivers   12 Jan 2015
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/980: Windows vs. Ubuntu Linux...   Display Drivers   08 Jan 2015
NVIDIA Linux Driver Continues Running Strong Against...   Display Drivers   05 Jan 2015
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA GeForce Linux Performance At The...   Display Drivers   30 Dec 2014
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers With Linux 3.18 + Mesa...   Display Drivers   21 Nov 2014
Is The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Fast Enough For Steam...   Display Drivers   19 Nov 2014
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers On Ubuntu 14.10   Display Drivers   27 Oct 2014
How Intel Graphics On Linux Compare To Open-Source...   Linux Gaming   31 Aug 2014
The Fastest NVIDIA GPUs For Open-Source Nouveau With...   Linux Gaming   30 Aug 2014
20-Way Radeon Comparison With Open-Source Graphics For...   Linux Gaming   27 Aug 2014
Radeon Gallium3D Is Running Increasingly Well Against...   Display Drivers   05 Aug 2014
Even With Re-Clocking, Nouveau Remains Behind NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   28 Jul 2014
The Power Consumption & Efficiency Of Open-Source...   Display Drivers   26 Jul 2014
Nouveau vs. Radeon vs. Intel Tests On Linux 3.16, Mesa...   Display Drivers   25 Jul 2014
Intel Haswell HD Graphics Benchmarks With Linux 3.16   Software   27 Jun 2014
Open-Source Radeon Performance Boosted By Linux 3.16   Display Drivers   23 Jun 2014
Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Way Faster, Shows Much Progress...   Display Drivers   20 Jun 2014
Open-Source Radeon Takes On AMD Catalyst In 2D...   Display Drivers   17 Jun 2014
Trying Out Nouveau GPU Re-Clocking On Linux 3.16   Display Drivers   16 Jun 2014
Linux 2D Performance: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA   Display Drivers   14 Jun 2014
35-Way NVIDIA/AMD Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver...   Graphics Cards   12 Jun 2014
The Performance-Per-Watt, Efficiency Of GPUs On...   Graphics Cards   05 Jun 2014
Until Re-Clocking Is Figured Out, Nouveau Remains Very...   Display Drivers   18 May 2014
Catalyst 14.4 Has Advantages Over Linux 3.15 + Mesa...   Display Drivers   16 May 2014
Intel vs. Radeon vs. Nouveau On Linux 3.15 + Mesa...   Display Drivers   14 May 2014
Intel HD Graphics On Linux 3.15 Brings Few Changes   Display Drivers   04 May 2014
Nouveau Graphics On Linux 3.15   Display Drivers   03 May 2014
20-Way Intel/AMD/NVIDIA GPU Comparison With Ubuntu...   Display Drivers   07 Apr 2014
NVIDIA Fermi/Kepler GPUs Are The Best Bet For Ubuntu...   Display Drivers   06 Apr 2014
NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series: Stick To The Binary Linux...   Display Drivers   21 Mar 2014
Intel, Radeon, Nouveau Preview On Linux 3.14 With Mesa...   Display Drivers   20 Mar 2014
Nouveau Drags Behind Intel & Radeon For Linux 2D...   Display Drivers   18 Mar 2014
Mesa 10.1 Released With Many Open-Source Driver...   Display Drivers   05 Mar 2014
11-Way Low-End & Older Open-Source GPU Linux...   Display Drivers   26 Feb 2014
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Is Still Sour For Some GPUs   Display Drivers   24 Jan 2014
27-Way NVIDIA & AMD Graphics Card Benchmarks On...   Graphics Cards   02 Dec 2013
9-Way NVIDIA GeForce Linux OpenCL GPU Benchmarks   Graphics Cards   29 Nov 2013
Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Works On Some GeForce 700...   Display Drivers   27 Nov 2013
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux vs. NVIDIA Windows 8.1   Display Drivers   31 Oct 2013
Open-Source Nouveau Driver Remains Slow For NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   29 Oct 2013
Linux 3.12 Can Change AMD's Catalyst Performance   Display Drivers   16 Oct 2013
Nouveau Performance Is Faster With Linux 3.12   Software   15 Oct 2013
4-Way Nouveau Benchmarks On Linux 3.12, Mesa 9.3   Display Drivers   26 Sep 2013
Nouveau Benchmarks Lack Change On Mesa 9.2   Display Drivers   06 Aug 2013
AMD Gallium3D & Catalyst Drivers Compete Against...   Display Drivers   02 Aug 2013
NVIDIA's Linux Driver On Ubuntu Is Very Competitive...   Graphics Cards   30 Jul 2013
NVIDIA Mobile: Nouveau vs. The Linux Binary Driver   Display Drivers   07 Jul 2013
Unity On XMir Performance For Nouveau Gallium3D   Software   30 Jun 2013
15-Way Open vs. Closed Source NVIDIA/AMD Linux GPU...   Graphics Cards   29 Apr 2013
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings   Display Drivers   23 Apr 2013
Mesa 9.2 Brings Better Performance To Intel Ivy Bridge   Display Drivers   13 Apr 2013
Early Ubuntu 13.04 Benchmarks On The Intel Atom   Operating Systems   20 Jan 2013
ION: Nouveau Competes With The NVIDIA R310 Driver   Display Drivers   18 Jan 2013
Five-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison On Nouveau   Display Drivers   11 Jan 2013
NVIDIA GeForce 600 "Kepler" On Open-Source:...   Display Drivers   08 Jan 2013
Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   04 Jan 2013
Early Benchmark Preview Of The Linux 3.8 Kernel   Software   03 Jan 2013
Nouveau NVIDIA Driver Can Be Faster With Linux 3.8   Display Drivers   02 Jan 2013
Checking In On Nouveau Gallium3D For Mesa 9.1   Display Drivers   29 Dec 2012
Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Comparison: 6 Desktops, 5...   Software   13 Dec 2012
8-Way NVIDIA Nouveau GPU Comparison   Graphics Cards   29 Nov 2012
Clock-For-Clock, Nouveau Can Compete With NVIDIA's...   Display Drivers   06 Nov 2012

Nouveau Linux News

Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements,...   Mesa   18 May 2022
NVIDIA Updates Legacy 470 & 390 Series Linux...   NVIDIA   16 May 2022
Valve Developer Starts Poking At Open-Source...   Radeon   13 May 2022
AMD Graphics Driver Surpassing 4 Million Lines Of Code...   Linux Kernel   12 May 2022
Mesa 22.2 Lands The Big Removal Of Old GLSL-To-TGSI...   Mesa   05 May 2022
VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed   Mesa   05 May 2022
Linux NTFS, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Mesa 22.1 & Other...   Phoronix   01 May 2022
Nouveau Switches Over To NIR Backend By Default   Nouveau   30 Apr 2022
Mesa Prepares To Drop Old GLSL-To-TGSI - Big Code...   Mesa   20 Apr 2022
GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old...   Radeon   17 Apr 2022
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements,...   Mesa   14 Apr 2022
NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally...   NVIDIA   11 Apr 2022
New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver...   NVIDIA   08 Apr 2022
Fedora Project Leader Calls Out NVIDIA Over Their...   Fedora   04 Apr 2022
Rusticl Posted For Working On OpenCL 3.0 Within Rust...   Mesa   18 Mar 2022
Mesa 22.0 Released With Vulkan 1.3, Many Open-Source...   Mesa   09 Mar 2022
Linux 5.18 Will Speed Up Some FBDEV Operations By 6x,...   Linux Kernel   03 Mar 2022
More DRM Display/Graphics Driver Changes Readied For...   Linux Kernel   24 Feb 2022
Mesa's Virgl Preparing To Transition To Using NIR Over...   Virtualization   20 Feb 2022
NVIDIA GeForce FX / 6 / 7 Series GPUs Get Notable...   NVIDIA   16 Feb 2022
GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop...   GNOME   13 Feb 2022
AMD Preparing More Linux Improvements Around...   AMD   13 Feb 2022
Linux 5.17-rc3 Restores FBDEV Hardware-Accelerated...   Linux Kernel   06 Feb 2022
Graphics Driver Changes Begin Lining Up For Linux 5.18   Linux Kernel   27 Jan 2022
Radeon R300 Driver Lands NIR-To-TGSI Code, Old NVIDIA...   Mesa   10 Dec 2021
Intel's SWR Removed From Mainline Mesa, More Classic...   Mesa   07 Dec 2021
Mesa's Classic Drivers Have Been Retired - Affecting...   Mesa   03 Dec 2021
Nouveau Lights Up The NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU Open-Source...   Nouveau   18 Nov 2021
RISC-V With Linux 5.16 Enabling Open-Source NVIDIA...   RISC-V   13 Nov 2021
Linux 5.16 Graphics Drivers: Alder Lake S Is Stable,...   Linux Kernel   03 Nov 2021
NVIDIA Contributing Tegra NVDEC Support To Linux 5.16   NVIDIA   10 Oct 2021
AMDGPU Linux Driver To Overhaul Its Approach To Device...   Radeon   21 Sep 2021
Experimenting Is Underway For Rust Code Within Mesa   Mesa   17 Sep 2021
Linux 5.15 Graphics Driver Changes Bring Intel...   Linux Kernel   31 Aug 2021
Mesa 21.2 Released With New Intel Crocus Driver,...   Mesa   04 Aug 2021
Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems...   Debian   02 Aug 2021
Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 5.15   Linux Kernel   16 Jul 2021
NVIDIA Confirms Plans To Drop "Kepler" GPU...   NVIDIA   11 Jun 2021
Panfrost Gallium3D Driver For Open-Source Arm Mali...   Mesa   10 Jun 2021
Open-Source Driver Flips On OpenGL ES 3.1 For Select...   Nouveau   07 Jun 2021
Crocus Gallium3D Nears Mainline Mesa For Gallium3D...   Intel   05 Jun 2021
Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU...   Hardware   22 May 2021
NVIDIA 470 Series To Be The Last Supporting GTX...   NVIDIA   21 May 2021
Intel Working On TTM Integration For Discrete vRAM...   Intel   18 May 2021
Nouveau Working On Bringing Up Some OpenGL Compute...   Nouveau   01 May 2021
Crocus: Working On Gallium3D For Old Intel Graphics   Intel   24 Mar 2021
There's Finally An Easy Way To Track Mesa's OpenCL...   Mesa   01 Mar 2021
Mesa 21.0-RC5 Released For Testing This Q1'2021...   Mesa   20 Feb 2021
VRR For Intel Xe Graphics, Radeon RX 6000 Series...   Linux Kernel   19 Feb 2021
There Are Big Changes On The Horizon With Linux 5.12   Linux Kernel   14 Feb 2021
The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots...   Linux Kernel   12 Feb 2021
Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In...   Nouveau   12 Feb 2021
NVIDIA Posts Patches For SVM Atomics Support With...   NVIDIA   09 Feb 2021
Mesa Vulkan Drivers Get A Common Dispatch Framework...   Mesa   02 Feb 2021
Linux 5.11-rc6 Released With Itanium Support Now...   Linux Kernel   31 Jan 2021
Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12   Nouveau   29 Jan 2021
GTK4 Toolkit Seeing More Improvements To Its OpenGL...   GNOME   24 Jan 2021
Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years   NVIDIA   23 Jan 2021
GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support   GNOME   23 Jan 2021
Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30...   Linux Kernel   17 Jan 2021
Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30...   Linux Kernel   15 Jan 2021
Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports...   Nouveau   14 Jan 2021
Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But...   Nouveau   12 Jan 2021
AMD Making Progress On HMM-Based SVM Memory Manager...   Radeon   09 Jan 2021
Another NVIDIA Engineer Just Made His First...   NVIDIA   08 Jan 2021
Linux 5.10.5 Released - It Disables FBCON Accelerated...   Linux Kernel   06 Jan 2021
Mesa's Clover OpenCL Adds Support For Loading SPIR-V...   Mesa   02 Jan 2021
Some Linux/Open-Source Letdowns Last For Years   Free Software   01 Jan 2021
The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of...   NVIDIA   30 Dec 2020
Nouveau Sees Fix To Properly Handle Mini DP Connectors...   Nouveau   30 Dec 2020
Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 5.11...   Linux Kernel   13 Dec 2020
Mesa 20.3 Released With Big Improvements For...   Mesa   03 Dec 2020
Linux 5.10-rc4 Released But The Kernel Hasn't Calmed...   Linux Kernel   15 Nov 2020
TTM Multihop + Intel Keem Bay Display Support Queued...   Linux Kernel   12 Nov 2020
TTM Multihop Code Revised For Improving Linux GPU...   Linux Kernel   09 Nov 2020
New TTM Allocator For AMDGPU Graphics Memory Landing...   Radeon   07 Nov 2020
Linux Frame-Buffer Console To Drop Accelerated...   Linux Kernel   30 Oct 2020
New TTM Code Can Yield 3~5x Faster Page Allocation For...   Linux Kernel   25 Oct 2020
Nouveau + LLVMpipe Drivers Enable OpenCL Image Support   Mesa   21 Oct 2020
The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5%...   Linux Kernel   11 Oct 2020
OpenCL 1.2 Support Merged For Mesa's Gallium3D Clover...   Mesa   08 Oct 2020
NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No...   NVIDIA   05 Oct 2020
Mesa 20.2 Released With RADV ACO By Default, Initial...   Mesa   29 Sep 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support...   NVIDIA   15 Sep 2020
NVIDIA Reportedly Near Deal To Buy Arm For $40+...   Arm   12 Sep 2020
NVIDIA Engineer Sends Out Patches For Supporting Sync...   NVIDIA   03 Sep 2020
Nouveau NVC0 Shader Disk Cache Lands For Speeding Up...   Nouveau   25 Aug 2020
Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Adds Compute Kernel...   Intel   12 Aug 2020
Mesa 20.2 Development Ends After Many New Features...   Mesa   06 Aug 2020
Open-Source GPU Driver Updates Sent In For Linux 5.9...   Linux Kernel   06 Aug 2020
Kernel Developers Work To Block NVIDIA "GPL...   Linux Kernel   03 Aug 2020
Changes Expected For The Linux 5.9 Kernel From Intel...   Linux Kernel   02 Aug 2020
Nouveau Changes For Linux 5.9 Bring Fixes, Prep For...   Nouveau   24 Jul 2020
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" CRC Support...   Nouveau   22 Jul 2020
Mesa 20.2's Nouveau Enables HMM, OpenCL SVM Now...   Mesa   14 Jul 2020
Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top...   Phoronix   30 Jun 2020
Eight Features Not In Linux 5.8 From The DirectX...   Linux Kernel   16 Jun 2020
LiteDIP: Creating Open-Source IP Blocks For Generic...   Hardware   11 Jun 2020
Open-Source 3D/Compute Finally Materializing For...   Nouveau   09 Jun 2020
Linux 5.8 Graphics Updates Sent In With AMDGPU TMZ...   Linux Kernel   02 Jun 2020