NVIDIA Quadro FX Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Driver Intel Core i7 720Q testing with a LENOVO 4318CTO and NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Power consumption testing on ThinkPad W510 wuth Core i7 720QM notebook when on battery power consumption. Quick comparison of stock Nouveau stack versus the NVIDIA proprietary Linux driver. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1203307-SU-NVIDIAQUA48&rdt&grr .
NVIDIA Quadro FX Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Driver Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.47GHz (8 Cores) LENOVO 4318CTO Intel Core DMI 4096MB 160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160 NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz) Conexant CX20585 Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-21-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.8.0 X Server 1.11.3 nouveau 0.0.16 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 GCC 4.6 ext4 1600x900 NVIDIA 295.33 3.3.0 NVIDIA OpenBenchmarking.org Processor Details - Scaling Governor: ondemand Graphics Details - Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau: EXA System Details - Compiz was running on this system. This was running on battery power.
NVIDIA Quadro FX Ubuntu 12.04 Linux Driver openarena: 1600 x 900 doom3: 1600 x 900 - Low Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 98.57 23.37 195.17 61.27 OpenBenchmarking.org
System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 17713 35150 44514 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 18451 36366 53338 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts System Power Consumption Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring 13K 26K 39K 52K 65K
GPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 39.0 46.2 50.0 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 37.0 45.0 53.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius GPU Temperature Monitor Phoronix Test Suite System Monitoring 15 30 45 60 75
OpenArena System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 33908 41835 44514 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 37595 46129 51233 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 System Power Consumption Monitor 13K 26K 39K 52K 65K
OpenArena GPU Temperature Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 46.0 48.0 49.0 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 48.0 50.7 53.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 GPU Temperature Monitor 15 30 45 60 75
OpenArena Resolution: 1600 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1600 x 900 Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.59, N = 3 SE +/- 1.38, N = 3 98.57 195.17
Doom 3 System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 21817 39281 43468 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 23182 47192 53338 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better Doom 3 1.3.1 System Power Consumption Monitor 13K 26K 39K 52K 65K
Doom 3 GPU Temperature Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 42.0 47.9 50.0 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 41.0 48.5 53.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Doom 3 1.3.1 GPU Temperature Monitor 15 30 45 60 75
Doom 3 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Quality: Low OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Doom 3 1.3.1 Resolution: 1600 x 900 - Quality: Low Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 23.37 61.27
Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 17713 19500 24328 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 18451 19339 22818 OpenBenchmarking.org Milliwatts, Fewer Is Better Timed Idle System Power Consumption Monitor 6K 12K 18K 24K 30K
Timed Idle GPU Temperature Monitor Min Avg Max Ubuntu 12.04 Stock - Nouveau 39.0 40.2 42.0 NVIDIA 295.33 Linux Driver 37.0 38.0 40.0 OpenBenchmarking.org Celsius, Fewer Is Better Timed Idle GPU Temperature Monitor 12 24 36 48 60
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