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

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 Re-Clocking, NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Drivers   Display Drivers   08 Oct 2012
Unity 6.8 Doesn't Change Much For Performance   Operating Systems   07 Oct 2012
Trying Out The Nouveau Driver Rewrite   Display Drivers   06 Oct 2012

Nouveau Linux News

Mesa 20.0 Now Includes Intel's Gallium3D Driver To...   Mesa   07 Dec 2019
NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver...   NVIDIA   05 Dec 2019
The Big Graphics Driver Update Lands In Linux 5.5 With...   Linux Kernel   28 Nov 2019
The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In...   Nouveau   24 Nov 2019
Khronos Opens Door For Allowing More Open-Source...   Mesa   16 Oct 2019
NVIDIA Still Working On A Generic Allocator - Has...   NVIDIA   07 Oct 2019
AMD Dominated Q3 In Wooing Over Linux / Open-Source...   Phoronix   03 Oct 2019
Wine-Nine-Standalone 0.5 Released To Improve Wine...   WINE   29 Sep 2019
Nouveau Finally Lands SPIR-V Support As Part Of OpenCL...   Nouveau   21 Sep 2019
Linux 5.4 DRM Pull Submitted With AMD Navi 12/14,...   Linux Kernel   19 Sep 2019
NVIDIA Bringing Up Open-Source Volta GPU Support For...   Nouveau   17 Sep 2019
Linux 5.4 Continues Sound Open Firmware, Improvements...   Hardware   17 Sep 2019
Linux 5.4 Cycle To Begin With exFAT Driver, EPYC...   Linux Kernel   15 Sep 2019
AMD EPYC 7002 & Ryzen 3000 Series Dominated Linux...   Phoronix   01 Sep 2019
Nouveau's Changes Sent Out For Linux 5.4 In Fixing Up...   Nouveau   23 Aug 2019
Linux 5.3-rc5 Released Following A Calm Week   Linux Kernel   18 Aug 2019
Intel's Linux Graphics Driver Developers Discover...   Intel   12 Aug 2019
NVIDIA Starts Publishing GPU Hardware Documentation To...   NVIDIA   07 Aug 2019
Ubuntu 19.10 Development Continues With Latest GNOME...   Ubuntu   26 Jul 2019
Audio Component Support Being Worked On For The Radeon...   Multimedia   23 Jul 2019
The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets...   Nouveau   19 Jul 2019
GNU Linux-libre 5.2-gnu Blesses Sound Open Firmware,...   GNU   08 Jul 2019
A Look At What's On The Table For Linux 5.3 Features   Linux Kernel   29 Jun 2019
Nouveau Driver Picking Up NVIDIA TU116 GPU Support For...   Nouveau   19 Jun 2019
Linux Kernel Set To Expose Hidden NVIDIA HDA...   Nouveau   13 Jun 2019
Wine Staging 4.10 Adds EXT4 Case Insensitive Support   WINE   12 Jun 2019
NVIDIA Firmware Blobs Get Updated To Help Some Pascal...   Nouveau   07 Jun 2019
AMD Is Aiming For Radeon RX 5700 "Navi"...   Radeon   31 May 2019
Google Hired Another Linux Graphics Veteran To Work On...   Google   28 May 2019
Ubuntu 19.10 To Bundle NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver...   Ubuntu   23 May 2019
DRM Fixes Head Into Linux 5.2 While Letting Nouveau...   Nouveau   17 May 2019
Red Hat Is Looking To Hire Another Experienced...   Red Hat   14 May 2019
Working OpenCL Through Gallium3D Clover With LLVM To...   Mesa   13 May 2019
Nouveau Gets Initial Support For NVIDIA TU117 (GeForce...   Nouveau   10 May 2019
The Huge Linux 5.2 Kernel Merge Window Kicks Off   Linux Kernel   06 May 2019
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few...   Nouveau   01 May 2019
Mesa Is About To Crack 2.7 Million Lines   Mesa   29 Apr 2019
Nouveau Developer Working On OpenGL Extension To Help...   Mesa   15 Apr 2019
AMD Sends In Their Initial AMDGPU Driver Updates For...   Radeon   28 Mar 2019
GSoC 2019 Could Bring Work On A Vulkan GPU Driver...   X.Org   26 Mar 2019
RADV Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For...   Mesa   19 Mar 2019
Nouveau NIR Support Lands In Mesa 19.1 Git   Nouveau   17 Mar 2019
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Launches - Linux Benchmarks...   NVIDIA   14 Mar 2019
Nouveau NIR Support Slated To Land In Mesa 19.1 Over...   Nouveau   12 Mar 2019
NVIDIA Kepler Mainline Driver Support Nears...   NVIDIA   09 Mar 2019
DRM Changes For Linux 5.1 Bring Intel Fastboot, Komeda...   Linux Kernel   06 Mar 2019
It's Linux 5.0 Kernel Day Followed By The Start Of...   Linux Kernel   03 Mar 2019
Gallium3D's OpenCL "Clover" Begins Seeing...   Mesa   27 Feb 2019
X.Org Server 1.20.4 Released With XWayland Fixes   X.Org   26 Feb 2019
RadeonSI Gets Patches To Finally Tap The Parallel...   Radeon   25 Feb 2019
GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch Today - Supported By The...   NVIDIA   22 Feb 2019
The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0...   Linux Kernel   22 Feb 2019
The Many Changes Lining Up So Far For The Linux 5.1...   Linux Kernel   18 Feb 2019
Nouveau Changes Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.1 -...   Nouveau   18 Feb 2019
RADV Driver Gets Big Patch Series For 8-bit &...   Mesa   16 Feb 2019
Nouveau Driver Picks Up SVM Support Via HMM   Nouveau   15 Feb 2019
Mesa 19.0-RC4 Released With More Fixes   Mesa   13 Feb 2019
Linux-Firmware Adds Signed NVIDIA Firmware Binaries...   NVIDIA   13 Feb 2019
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM Changes...   Nouveau   13 Feb 2019
Mesa 19.0-RC3 Released But It's A Dud   Mesa   12 Feb 2019
Wine-Nine-Standalone Offers Up New Release For Making...   WINE   03 Feb 2019
Gallium3D's Mesa State Tracker Sees Shaders Ported...   Mesa   01 Feb 2019
The Latest NVIDIA EGLStreams Wayland Backend Code...   KDE   30 Jan 2019
HMM Gets New Features/Improvements, Nouveau Support...   Linux Kernel   30 Jan 2019
Open-Source NVIDIA X.Org Driver Updated With DP MST,...   Nouveau   29 Jan 2019
The New Features On Deck For Mesa 19.0: Vulkan...   Mesa   28 Jan 2019
Wayland Support On The BSDs Continuing To Improve   BSD   21 Jan 2019
Linux 5.0-rc3 Kernel Released With Plenty Of Fixes...   Linux Kernel   20 Jan 2019
Nouveau Open-Source Driver Will Now Work With NVIDIA...   Nouveau   18 Jan 2019
Intel To Eventually Explore Offering A Graphics...   Intel   16 Jan 2019
Mesa 19.0 Deprecates GNU Autotools Build System In...   Mesa   16 Jan 2019
SPIR-V Clover Support Might Still Land For Mesa 19.0,...   Mesa   08 Jan 2019
Linux 5.0-rc1 Debuts With New Hardware Support,...   Linux Kernel   06 Jan 2019
Google Devs Call Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Unstable,...   Nouveau   05 Jan 2019
From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking...   Linux Kernel   02 Jan 2019
Open-Source / Linux Letdowns For 2018   Free Software   31 Dec 2018
NVIDIA's 2018 Linux Highlights Included Some...   NVIDIA   30 Dec 2018
Nouveau Picks Up NV_shader_atomic_float For...   Nouveau   27 Dec 2018
Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source...   Mesa   26 Dec 2018
FreeSync Support Lands In Linux 4.21 With Other DRM...   Linux Kernel   26 Dec 2018
Linux 4.21 Is Going To Be A Big Release To Jump-Start...   Linux Kernel   22 Dec 2018
The Most Notable New Features Of The Linux 4.20 Kernel   Linux Kernel   20 Dec 2018
NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Might Soon Work On...   Fedora   18 Dec 2018
Mesa 18.2.7 Released With Several RADV Driver Fixes,...   Mesa   13 Dec 2018
Nouveau Lands Initial Open-Source NVIDIA Turing...   Nouveau   11 Dec 2018
NVIDIA Tegra X2 & Xavier Get HDMI Audio With Linux...   NVIDIA   09 Dec 2018
It Looks Like We Won't See An Open-Source NVIDIA...   Nouveau   06 Dec 2018
Heterogeneous Memory System (HMS) Prototype Published...   Linux Kernel   03 Dec 2018
NVIDIA Unveils $2,499 USD TITAN RTX   NVIDIA   03 Dec 2018
A Radeon RX 590 Workaround For Linux But With Abysmal...   Radeon   29 Nov 2018
NVIDIA Tegra194 Xavier Gets Plumbed For Open-Source...   NVIDIA   24 Nov 2018
More NIR Optimizations En Route, "Soft FP64"...   Mesa   22 Nov 2018
Red Hat Developers Working Towards A Vendor-Neutral...   Red Hat   17 Nov 2018
The Newest Mesa NIR/SPIR-V Code For Handling OpenCL...   Mesa   15 Nov 2018
The Shiny New Features Of Mesa 18.3 For Open-Source...   Mesa   13 Nov 2018
Xfce Support For "Primary Display" Output...   Desktop   13 Nov 2018
SteamOS/Linux Requirements For Valve's Artifact Is...   Valve   11 Nov 2018
NVIDIA Open-Sources New I2C USB Type-C Turing GPU...   NVIDIA   10 Nov 2018
The Big DRM Graphics Driver Pull Request Has Been...   Linux Kernel   25 Oct 2018
Red Hat & NVIDIA To Collaborate On Some...   Red Hat   23 Oct 2018