NVIDIA GeForce 600 "Kepler" On Open-Source: It's Uselessly Slow

[bridgman]

I guess this proves that hundreds or thousands of proprietary driver developers can deliver more than a handful of open source developers.

Fixed that for you.

[Adarion]

Oh well.
It is not fast. Compared to the blob.
But the fps seems clearly playable so it's already quite usable for that purpose. I wonder if I'll fire up my ancient Geforce 2 one day again.

[foobaz]

This level of performance is enough to use a compositing window manager with fancy effects. Before, this was not possible with Kepler unless you used the proprietary driver. I think it is a great step forward and I'm sure performance will improve as they continue working on it.

[ChrisXY]

Just admit it already: the open source people can't write graphics drivers to save their lives. They cannot write fast optimized code. They suck at it. There is no excuse for such a performance hit. They need to learn programming first before starting to write drivers. The radeon guys have the documentation and yet they still don't get anywhere the official blobs' performance. Shitty programmers, that is all.

Seriously, what is wrong with you?

[r1348]

Stop defending incompetence. If Microsoft would have done something similar you would have said they are complete idiots but for linux you find all sorts of excuses. Just admit it already: the open source people can't write graphics drivers to save their lives. They cannot write fast optimized code. They suck at it. There is no excuse for such a performance hit. They need to learn programming first before starting to write drivers. The radeon guys have the documentation and yet they still don't get anywhere the official blobs' performance. Shitty programmers, that is all.

Exactly! That's why you'll never find Linux in HPC... oh wait.

[Adarion]

Awww, kids, don't feed the troll.

[crazycheese]

Stop defending incompetence. If Microsoft would have done something similar you would have said they are complete idiots but for linux you find all sorts of excuses. Just admit it already: the open source people can't write graphics drivers to save their lives. They cannot write fast optimized code. They suck at it. There is no excuse for such a performance hit. They need to learn programming first before starting to write drivers. The radeon guys have the documentation and yet they still don't get anywhere the official blobs' performance. Shitty programmers, that is all.

Donate your hardware to nouveau. Do first and second* good thing in your life!

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* Because when you are off internet, it is a good thing

@On topic:
Thanks for removing reclocking support, nvidia
Another 25% performance for radeon and you are gone off linux market.

[asdx]

No, I think we're just severely understaffed ... plus the "make it work first, make it fast later" mentality. Later is just ... very late if you have limited resources. Also, radeons are evil, they lock up if you look at them sideways (never worked on radeon but that's what it looks like from the green side) instead of telling you what you did wrong, which is I guess why some things might take longer there.

Please don't be discouraged by idiots like BO$$, nouveau is doing an amazing job and many people appreciate the work you guys are doing. Thank you so much for nouveau, I will never use the blob again.

[asdx]

Stop defending incompetence. If Microsoft would have done something similar you would have said they are complete idiots but for linux you find all sorts of excuses. Just admit it already: the open source people can't write graphics drivers to save their lives. They cannot write fast optimized code. They suck at it. There is no excuse for such a performance hit. They need to learn programming first before starting to write drivers. The radeon guys have the documentation and yet they still don't get anywhere the official blobs' performance. Shitty programmers, that is all.

What a fucking moron, you probably can't even make anything bigger than a "hello world" script and yet you criticize programmers who are working without specifications from the manufacturer, REing hardware, etc. Things you will never ever achieve even in your wildest dreams.

People like you should be given the lethal injection, you are a scum of the earth. Go fuck yourself already. Loser.

[BO$$]

Exactly! That's why you'll never find Linux in HPC... oh wait.

Something tells me that those who use linux in HPC also have a team of programmers who modify the kernel in order to be used in those circumstances. What are you trying to say? That everything is OK and that the graphics drivers are good? Stop hallucinating. The drivers are shit and useless. Stop applauding this total failure in linux. And stop finding excuses for them. If they did their work properly we would have the official blobs running correctly without the companies needing to change and adapt drivers every month with every new X.org release.