NVIDIA Nouveau 1080p 2015 Linux End of year 2015 NVIDIA vs. Nouveau Linux graphics driver benchmarking. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article. NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/2500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (1019/2700MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-22-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: NVIDIA 358.16, OpenGL: 4.4.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nouveau: GTX 680: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1202/6008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (1202/7000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nouveau: GTX 760: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (1202/6008MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nouveau: GTX 650: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB (1084/5000MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti: Processor: Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.50GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4-CF, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB (405/810MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.3.0-040300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (padoka PPA) Gallium 0.4, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 125.16 |========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 119.84 |======================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 127.80 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 61.70 |===================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 95.59 |================================ Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 36.59 |============ Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 16.36 |====== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 32.95 |=========== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 18.05 |====== DiRT Showdown Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Graphics Preset: High - Multi-Sampling: 2x MSAA Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 123.61 |========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 115.00 |======================================= NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 125.40 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 45.82 |================ NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 81.04 |============================ Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 14.51 |===== Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 13.75 |===== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 14.62 |===== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 14.48 |===== Metro 2033 Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 133.77 |========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 130.27 |========================================= NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 135.38 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 55.89 |================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 97.32 |=============================== Metro: Last Light Redux Phoronix Test Suite v6.2.0m1 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 130.04 |==================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 120.55 |================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 153.56 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 44.34 |============ NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 85.53 |======================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 344.57 |====================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 320.17 |=================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 392.33 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 126.77 |============== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 250.87 |=========================== Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 188.33 |===================== Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 141.07 |=============== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 167.10 |================== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 98.43 |=========== Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti ....... 31.13 |=== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.9 MAX: 17.0 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.1 MAX: 18.0 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.5 MAX: 17.0 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 7.9 MAX: 22.0 NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 4.0 MAX: 18.0 Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 5.4 MAX: 17.0 Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 7.1 MAX: 25.0 Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 5.9 MAX: 25.0 Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 10.1 MAX: 28.0 Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti ....... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 32.0 MAX: 81.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 224.19 |==================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 214.35 |================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 267.75 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 122.99 |==================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 180.92 |============================= Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 192.44 |=============================== Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 126.68 |==================== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 182.34 |============================= Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 91.46 |=============== Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti ....... 22.78 |==== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 109.80 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 108.33 |========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 105.95 |========================================= NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 91.50 |==================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 104.31 |========================================= Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 91.00 |==================================== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 101.35 |======================================== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 80.72 |================================ Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti ....... 21.59 |======== Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 92.56 |==================================== Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 64.70 |=============================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 55.76 |=========================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 91.43 |============================================ NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 20.13 |========== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 34.63 |================= Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 43.15 |===================== Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 19.91 |========== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 30.14 |=============== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 12.42 |====== Nouveau: GTX 750 Ti ....... 3.26 |== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultimate Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 680 .... 223.37 |========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 760 .... 216.21 |======================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 780 Ti . 231.21 |=========================================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 650 .... 110.43 |===================== NVIDIA 358.16: GTX 750 Ti . 147.94 |============================ Nouveau: GTX 680 .......... 74.61 |============== Nouveau: GTX 780 Ti ....... 95.98 |================== Nouveau: GTX 760 .......... 113.86 |===================== Nouveau: GTX 650 .......... 67.33 |=============