Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Drivers On Quadro Laptop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Drivers On Quadro Laptop

For starting off Friday's benchmarking at Phoronix are some numbers when looking at the Nouveau driver with Ubuntu 13.04 against NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver when both are controlling a Quadro GPU found on a ThinkPad laptop...

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

[przemoli]

Well nice job nouveau team

[Calinou]

lol, even an HD2500/HD3000/HD4000 IGP does better.

[Pajn]

They should rely put an effort in enabeling reclocking.
The driver is stable and performace seems to be very good when compared
at the same speed.

[garegin]

They should rely put an effort in enabeling reclocking.
The driver is stable and performace seems to be very good when compared
at the same speed.

GUIs are for whimps anyway. just use a pitch black console and you'll be fine.

[Calinou]

They should rely put an effort in enabeling reclocking.
The driver is stable and performace seems to be very good when compared
at the same speed.

+1. It'd be even better if we could control fan speed and overclock Fermi/Kepler GPUs... then I'd switch to Nouveau if a few shader-related and font bugs were fixed too. :P

[enosdan]

Quoting from the article

Nouveau also only saw 128MB of VRAM available where as the NVIDIA driver could access all 512MB

The card tested only has 128Mb. There is no such thing as a 512Mb onboard lenovo NVS 140M. NVidia reports shared system memory.