The Initial Performance Of NVIDIA's R515 Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 12 May 2022 at 05:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 54 Comments.
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks

For the most part the performance for Linux gaming was very close between these two different kernel drivers.

NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks

It was refreshing to see similar performance for the most part and with really being unsure of the performance expectations going into it since NVIDIA did clearly communicate to me that it was alpha quality, etc. Besides the performance being fine for most of the games, there weren't any other issues encountered during the light testing thus far.

NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks
NVIDIA R515 Benchmarks

But in some games like Quake II RTX, there became a clear trend there of the default proprietary driver consistently offering slightly better performance than the current open-source driver.


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