NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 March 2024 at 11:15 AM EST. Page 5 of 6. 35 Comments.
VkFFT benchmark with settings of Test: FFT + iFFT R2C / C2R. Proprietary: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
VkFFT benchmark with settings of Test: FFT + iFFT C2C 1D batched in single precision. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
VkFFT benchmark with settings of Test: FFT + iFFT C2C Bluestein benchmark in double precision. Proprietary: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
ProjectPhysX OpenCL-Benchmark benchmark with settings of Operation: FP64 Compute. Proprietary: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
ProjectPhysX OpenCL-Benchmark benchmark with settings of Operation: INT32 Compute. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
ProjectPhysX OpenCL-Benchmark benchmark with settings of Operation: INT8 Compute. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.

Outside of graphics workloads, for GPU compute scenarios too the NVIDIA R550 open kernel driver was working out well on the consumer hardware.

OctaneBench benchmark with settings of Total Score. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP32. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP32. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
FluidX3D benchmark with settings of Test: FP32-FP16C. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: GPU. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Orange Juice, Acceleration: GPU. Proprietary: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: LuxCore Benchmark, Acceleration: GPU. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism, Acceleration: GPU. Open: RTX 4090 was the fastest.

I didn't encounter any issues with the R550 open kernel modules across the wide variety of workloads tested.


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