Nouveau GTX Kepler and Maxwell Linux 4.6 Testing Nouveau Linux 4.6 kernel testing with the GeForce GTX 600/700/900 series 3D support compared to NVIDIA binary driver. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. GeForce GTX 950: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-43c6f3f 2016-03-23 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 960: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-43c6f3f 2016-03-23 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-43c6f3f 2016-03-23 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 980 Ti: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-43c6f3f 2016-03-23 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 760: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 760 + RC: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 680: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 GeForce GTX 680 + RC: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2415Q, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322, Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.1, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.3.1 20160320, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 42.23 |====== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 47.43 |======= GeForce GTX 980 ......... 81.73 |============ GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 123.17 |================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 98.93 |=============== GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 152.67 |======================= GeForce GTX 760 ......... 66.00 |========== GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 115.13 |================= GeForce GTX 680 ......... 67.27 |========== GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 304.77 |============================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 23.6 MAX: 63.0 GeForce GTX 960 ......... MIN: 2.0 AVG: 21.1 MAX: 58.0 GeForce GTX 980 ......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 12.4 MAX: 33.0 GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 8.0 MAX: 31.0 GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 10.1 MAX: 26.0 GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 6.6 MAX: 18.0 GeForce GTX 760 ......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 15.2 MAX: 43.0 GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 8.8 MAX: 22.0 GeForce GTX 680 ......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 14.8 MAX: 41.0 GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.3 MAX: 13.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 23.26 |===== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 25.20 |===== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 40.81 |======== GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 64.81 |============= GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 58.48 |=========== GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 123.80 |======================== GeForce GTX 760 ......... 40.40 |======== GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 89.95 |================= GeForce GTX 680 ......... 41.01 |======== GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 231.56 |============================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 11.62 |====== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 11.92 |====== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 18.41 |========= GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 26.89 |============== GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 24.43 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 47.54 |======================== GeForce GTX 760 ......... 17.42 |========= GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 32.82 |================= GeForce GTX 680 ......... 17.84 |========= GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 90.18 |============================================== Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 25.62 |========= GeForce GTX 960 ......... 27.98 |========== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 47.22 |================= GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 73.80 |=========================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 72.27 |========================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 121.33 |============================================ GeForce GTX 760 ......... 48.82 |================== GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 102.19 |===================================== GeForce GTX 680 ......... 50.00 |================== GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 124.90 |============================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 40.19 |===== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 41.50 |====== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 76.10 |========== GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 150.95 |==================== GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 97.51 |============= GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 233.74 |=============================== GeForce GTX 760 ......... 64.40 |========= GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 187.57 |========================= GeForce GTX 680 ......... 65.76 |========= GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 337.74 |============================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 13.09 |=== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 14.03 |=== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 25.77 |====== GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 48.66 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 36.64 |========= GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 97.34 |======================= GeForce GTX 760 ......... 23.32 |====== GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 70.16 |================= GeForce GTX 680 ......... 24.23 |====== GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 188.07 |============================================= Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GeForce GTX 950 ......... 10.43 |=== GeForce GTX 960 ......... 11.60 |==== GeForce GTX 980 ......... 21.50 |======= GeForce GTX 980 Ti ...... 38.22 |============ GeForce GTX 780 Ti ...... 32.18 |========== GeForce GTX 780 Ti + RC . 73.16 |======================= GeForce GTX 760 ......... 19.92 |====== GeForce GTX 760 + RC .... 49.09 |=============== GeForce GTX 680 ......... 18.65 |====== GeForce GTX 680 + RC .... 145.60 |=============================================