The Fastest NVIDIA GPUs For Open-Source Nouveau With Steam Linux Gaming

Like Radeon, many of the NVIDIA GPUs using the Nouveau driver weren't able to fully run our Team Fortress 2 tech demo. At least the GTX 780 Ti and GTX TITAN were able to finish and delivered playable frame-rates but they're certainly still much lower than what would be delivered by the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.

There isn't much more to say at this stage... The Nouveau driver simply needs a lot more work for getting into shape by having suitable re-clocking support that's dynamic and works for a majority of the GeForce hardware out there. However, that effort will take much time and assistance and likely won't be resolved until at least sometime in 2015 judging by the current rate of change. Until then, open-source gamers are much better off sticking to the open-source Radeon driver with AMD hardware or using the first-rate proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.

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