NVIDIA GeForce 700 Series: Stick To The Binary Linux Drivers

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 21 March 2014 at 06:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 13 Comments.
Nouveau GeForce 700
Nouveau GeForce 700

The GTX 760 and GTX 770 performance with Nouveau is virtually identical due to both GPUs running at the same frequency with the open-source driver. All of the Nouveau results are far behind the binary NVIDIA 334.21 Linux graphics driver due to the aforementioned re-clocking problems for Nouveau/

Nouveau GeForce 700

Besides the performance being slow, Nouveau didn't work on the GeForce GTX 780 Ti and there is not yet any public "Maxwell" GPU support outside of using the binary blob.


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