Nouveau Driver Usage vs. NVIDIA Binary Driver
Using the Phoronix Test Suite system_monitor module to track various metrics under the Nouveau and NVIDIA binary drivers for this mobile NVIDIA GeForce 400 Fermi ASIC.s
Nouveau NVC0
Processor: Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Serval Professional, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080, Graphics: NVIDIA Device 0e31 2048MB (1150/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
NVIDIA 270.30
Processor: Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Serval Professional, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M 2048MB (575/1500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 270.30, OpenGL: 4.1.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
HDD Write Speed Monitor
GPU Temperature Monitor
GPU Frequency Monitor
Nexuiz
VDrift
SYS Temperature Monitor
SYS Iowait Monitor
Memory Usage Monitor
HDD Read Speed Monitor
CPU Usage Monitor
CPU Frequency Monitor
Nexuiz
VDrift
Nouveau NVC0
Processor: Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Serval Professional, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080, Graphics: NVIDIA Device 0e31 2048MB (1150/405MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.38-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 28 March 2011 20:55 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 270.30
Processor: Intel Core i7-2820QM @ 2.30GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Serval Professional, Chipset: Intel Sandy Bridge, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSA2M080, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M 2048MB (575/1500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892
OS: Ubuntu 10.10, Kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.32.0, Display Server: X Server 1.9.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 270.30, OpenGL: 4.1.0, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080
System Notes: Compiz was running on this system. Intel SpeedStep was enabled.
Testing initiated at 29 March 2011 13:58 by user phoronix.