Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux vs. NVIDIA Windows 8.1

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 31 October 2013 at 11:56 AM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 38 Comments.
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau - Ubuntu Linux
NVIDIA vs. Nouveau - Ubuntu Linux

To no surprise given the GTX 460 and GTX 680 have no form of re-clocking right now in Nouveau while the re-clocking support for the aging GeForce 9800GT was unstable, the NVIDIA binary driver on both Windows and Linux is many times faster. The NVIDIA Windows vs. Linux results were part of the recent 13-way comparison of the two operating systems.

NVIDIA vs. Nouveau - Ubuntu Linux

The results will be much more interesting when proper Nouveau re-clocking is finally here.

NVIDIA vs. Nouveau - Ubuntu Linux

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