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Phoronix: NVIDIA 1.0-8XXX Driver Round-Up

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Michael Larabel
May 30, 2006

[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
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“With the launch of the NVIDIA 1.0-8762 proprietary Linux
display drivers last week, it has marked the end of the road for
the Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD 1.0-8XXX drivers. While we probably will
not see the NVIDIA Linux 1.0-9XXX series at an earliest until
August or September–the Windows ForceWare 91.28 Beta drivers had
come out last week–we have decided to do a recap of these recent
NVIDIA drivers. We have re-tested the 1.0-8174, 1.0-8178, 1.0-8756,
and the newest 1.0-8762 drivers and have put them through an array
of benchmarks. We have also recapped the changes for these drivers
through the various releases…”


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Michael Larabel

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