A Fresh Look At The Nouveau Gallium3D Performance | Linux Today

A Fresh Look At The Nouveau Gallium3D Performance

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 17, 2011

“With Lightsmark, there is a moderate drop in performance when
upgrading to the latest Linux 3.0 kernel Nouveau DRM. The
open-source driver is also still no match for NVIDIA’s official
binary-only driver.

“Unfortunately, the Linux 3.0 kernel does not bring any major
Nouveau driver advancements, but at least it has not dramatically
regressed. We are in the process of running some more tests for
other generations of NVIDIA hardware.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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