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  • For Older NVIDIA GPUs, Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Getting Fit

    Phoronix: For Older NVIDIA GPUs, Nouveau Re-Clocking Is Getting Fit

    Student developer Roy Spliet presented at XDC2014 Bordeaux this week about his X.Org Foundation funded work on improving GPU re-clocking for the open-source Nouveau (NVIDIA) Linux graphics driver. For NVA3/NVA5/NVA8 hardware owners, the reverse-engineered driver will soon start offering better performance with the GPU core and memory frequencies finally able to hit their rated targets...

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    Awesome cause it's older Nvidia GPU owners who would benefit the most from Nouveau. But yea Nvidia should do something like hire Roy as AMD is doing everything that Nvidia won't with open source drivers.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Dukenukemx View Post
      Awesome cause it's older Nvidia GPU owners who would benefit the most from Nouveau.
      I don't know - I'm not sure about that. Nvidia does a decent job maintaining legacy drivers. Obviously nowhere near as good as their modern drivers, but not a whole lot farther behind Catalyst.

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      • #4
        RH would be a great fit. They seem to be hiring more folks for the graphics stack. They seem to be continuously hiring....

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