NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980: The Best GPU For Linux Gamers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980: The Best GPU For Linux Gamers

Earlier this month NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 as their highest-end offerings based on their Maxwell architecture. Since the GTX 750 series debut I have been anxious to see Maxwell succeed Kepler in the high-end space and finally last week I got hands on time with the GTX 980. As long as you are not committed to using pure open-source graphics drivers, the GeForce GTX 980 is the best you can get as a Linux gamer/enthusiast for high performance graphics for ending out 2014.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=20976

[schmidtbag]

Holy crap that's a pretty big performance gain all around. It's weird because in Windows, the 980 falls behind the 780Ti in many cases. Clearly a better GPU for linux (though, we don't know yet how it performs compared to Windows). Nice to hear there were not issues either. I look forward to some of the other 900 series reviews.

[Kivada]

Nvidia still doesn't officially support OSS drivers so it's still a no buy.

[Tgui]

I picked up a cheap Maxwell based 750 Ti to replace my GTX 465. While its faster, the more amazing feature is its sipping of power! NVIDIA is really onto something!

[dh04000]

Cool Story Bro

Nvidia still doesn't officially support OSS drivers so it's still a no buy.

Cool Story Bro.

Cool Story, Bro.

Bro, Cool Story.

Cool Story Bro.

[Lysius]

Have you tried suspending the system? According to the release notes of 343.22 this is something that might not work reliably at the moment.

Known issues with this release:
Resuming from suspend may not be reliable on GeForce GTX 9xx boards in some configurations.

And unfortunately the article is missing the power consumption values for the LuxMark test runs, which I would be really interested in.

[A Laggy Grunt]

What's the power draw when you run something like Furmark or OpenCL? Another reveiewer found it to be... high.

[KellyClowers]

Nvidia still doesn't officially support OSS drivers so it's still a no buy.

Indeed. This is actually a terrible gpu for linux, gamers or otherwise.

[Dukenukemx]

Smells like AMD has to drop their prices for the 290 and 290X. ElOhEl!

[schmidtbag]

Smells like AMD has to drop their prices for the 290 and 290X. ElOhEl!

Probably not. In Windows, the 290X is pretty competitive.