Intel vs. Radeon vs. Nouveau On Linux 3.15 + Mesa 10.3-devel

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 May 2014 at 12:45 PM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 9 Comments.

The Radeon HD 6000 series, while old and most Windows gamers are past them, for open-source Linux fans they are currently among the best buying choices for having a high-performance and relatively stable free driver experience without having to use Catalyst for Linux gaming.

The Nouveau performance should be quite interesting once the re-clocking / dynamic power management is sorted out, but there isn't yet a firm time-frame when we can expect this open-source NVIDIA driver to have the support properly implemented. Dealing with GPU re-clocking is one of the most complicated areas of the modern GPU drivers.


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