NVIDIA Mobile: Nouveau vs. The Linux Binary Driver - Phoronix
www.phoronix.com › scanJul 07, 2013 · Both the Nouveau and NVIDIA graphics drivers were tested in their "stock" configuration on Ubuntu 13.10. The Nouveau driver still lacks dynamic re-clocking support "out of the box" even with the Linux 3.11 kernel. After running the stock tests, Nouveau re-clocking was attempted to force the NVIDIA Quadro discrete GPU to its highest power state.
The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver At The ...
www.phoronix.com › scanDec 25, 2019 · For those wondering what the open-source NVIDIA performance looks like today with manually re-clocking the GeForce GTX 680 to its highest performance state and then the more limited GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell and GTX 1080 Pascal open-source support, here are some benchmarks of Mesa 20.0-devel + Linux 5.5 Nouveau compared to NVIDIA's proprietary 435.21 release driver.
Nvidia or Nouveau? - Linux Mint Forums
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=16592630.04.2014 · I've actually run on the nouveau driver for quite a while, thinking I was running the nvidia driver (installed a liquorix kernel, and the install didn't do the nvidia part correctly). The two differences I've seen are: - "Xorg" uses about twice the memory with the nvidia driver (40-50Meg vs 20-25). - Uses about 2X more CPU playing a video with ...