“As most of you are aware, due to poor ATI proprietary Linux
drivers, ATI graphics cards are usually left out of the game when
it comes to graphics card performance under Linux. Then of course,
there’s NVIDIA. NVIDIA has been developing Linux unified drivers
for quite a while (the first Linux release with Pixel and Vertex
Shader support occurred in early 2001) and it has definitely
reflected upon their Linux graphics performance. Of course, both
ATI and NVIDIA have extremely reliable drivers for Microsoft
Windows, otherwise neither would exist. One stake neither NVIDIA
nor ATI currently have a definite claim to is graphics card
overclocking under Linux. There are numerous Windows overclocking
utilities such as CoolBits, NVTweak, RivaTuner, ATiTool, and
PowerStrip. One of the few ways to overclock your NVIDIA graphics
card under Linux (without editing the video BIOS or physical card
modification) is through NVClock…”
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