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Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux driver benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 680
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (862/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (1202/1620MHz).
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 760
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (967/1620MHz).
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Changed Graphics to eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (405/324MHz).
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 460
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (50/135MHz).
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 650
Changed Graphics to MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/5000MHz).
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 770
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1032/1620MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 770
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1045/3505MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 460
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1804MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Changed Graphics to eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (951/2178MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 650
Changed Graphics to MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/2500MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 680
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz).
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 760
Changed Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz).
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Nouveau: GeForce GTX 680
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (862/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 10:16 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (1202/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 10:31 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 760
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (967/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 10:47 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (405/324MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 11:13 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 460
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (50/135MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 12:02 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 650
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/5000MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 13:46 by user pts.
Nouveau: GeForce GTX 770
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1032/1620MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.18.0-999-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.11, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.4.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Kernel Notes: nouveau.pstate=1
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Graphics Notes: EXA
Testing initiated at 17 November 2014 14:10 by user pts.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 770
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB (1045/3505MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 10:23 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 460
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB (675/1804MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 10:35 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1024MB (951/2178MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 10:50 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 650
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/2500MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 11:28 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 680
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 11:49 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 12:07 by user phoronix.
NVIDIA 346.16: GeForce GTX 760
Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v3/Core, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 128GB Crucial_CT128MX1, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz), Audio: Intel C610/X99, Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster, Network: Intel Connection
OS: Ubuntu 14.10, Kernel: 3.16.0-24-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.10, Display Server: X Server 1.16.0, Display Driver: NVIDIA 346.16, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1600
Processor Notes: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave
Testing initiated at 18 November 2014 12:17 by user phoronix.