Five-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison On Nouveau

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Five-Way NVIDIA GeForce Comparison On Nouveau

With the GeForce 600 "Kepler" graphics cards now working on Nouveau in an out-of-the-box manner with OpenGL acceleration, here's a brief five-way NVIDIA GeForce graphics card comparison when using the Nouveau open-source driver with the Linux 3.8 kernel and Mesa 9.1-devel.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18366

[leif81]

Have you ever done a test with the GTX 580? I'm trying to find benchmarks on OpenBenchmarking.org. Either I don't know how to use the site or none have ever been done.

[M1kkko]

TF2 is one of the few games that should be particularly interesting at times like these.

[AlbertP]

It should be noted that clockspeeds as low as 50MHz do not occur on all Fermi cards. Many 4xx and 5xx models have a newer revision that has more decent clockspeeds by default. If you would buy a 460 today instead of using a card of a few years old you might get very different numbers. Probably it also depends on the card manufacturer; I don't know if all of them are pushing new BIOS revisions from NVIDIA as quickly.

Also, not all 9800 cards are in such a high level by default. Phoronix also reviewed a 9600GSO with a high level by default some time ago. For the GeForce 6 series (PCIe, not AGP) it was still quite normal to find cards with a pretty high level by default, but in the 9 series most cards aren't programmed that way. You seem to be "lucky" with this card.

[crazycheese]

Also, not all 9800 cards are in such a high level by default. Phoronix also reviewed a 9600GSO with a high level by default some time ago. For the GeForce 6 series (PCIe, not AGP) it was still quite normal to find cards with a pretty high level by default, but in the 9 series most cards aren't programmed that way. You seem to be "lucky" with this card.

I confirm this, I had 9800GT which started at performance level by VGA BIOS, with driver spinning it down. Also means hair-drier style noise levels. Was truly "headache performance".