Nouveau GTX Kepler Pstate Reclocking vs. Blob Linux 4.6 Testing Nouveau Linux 4.6 kernel testing with the GeForce GTX 600/700 Kepler series 3D support compared to NVIDIA binary driver. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1603313-GA-NOUVEAUGT64&grw&sro .
Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution Vulkan Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f NVIDIA 364.12 GTX 780 Ti GTX 780 Ti GTX 760 GTX 760 GTX 680 GTX 680 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores) MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0 Intel Sky Lake 16384MB 120GB Samsung SSD 850 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB Realtek ALC1150 DELL P2415Q Intel Connection Ubuntu 16.04 4.5.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20160322 Unity 7.4.0 X Server 1.18.1 nouveau 1.0.12 4.1 Mesa 11.3.0-devel (git-511ce29 2016-03-25 xenial-oibaf-ppa) Gallium 0.4 GCC 5.3.1 20160320 ext4 3840x2160 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz) 4.4.0-15-generic (x86_64) NVIDIA 364.12 4.5.0 1.0.5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz) OpenBenchmarking.org Processor Details - Scaling Governor: intel_pstate performance Graphics Details - Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti, Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti, Nouveau Default: GTX 760, Nouveau 0f: GTX 760, Nouveau Default: GTX 680, Nouveau 0f: GTX 680: EXA
openarena: 1920 x 1080 tesseract: 1920 x 1080 tesseract: 3840 x 2160 xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - Low xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - High xonotic: 3840 x 2160 - Ultra tf2: 1920 x 1080 Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default Nouveau 0f NVIDIA 364.12 GTX 780 Ti GTX 780 Ti GTX 760 GTX 760 GTX 680 GTX 680 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 98.93 58.48 24.43 97.51 36.64 32.18 72.27 152.67 123.80 47.54 233.74 97.34 73.16 121.33 66.00 40.40 17.42 64.40 23.32 19.92 48.82 115.13 89.95 32.82 187.57 70.16 49.09 102.19 67.27 41.01 17.84 65.76 24.23 18.65 50.00 304.77 231.56 90.18 337.74 188.07 145.60 124.90 418.93 265.46 111.46 419.87 213.47 156.06 111.53 347.18 237.19 98.53 399.15 191.22 133.91 111.25 479.85 324.56 173.04 438.14 312.99 239.48 111.61 OpenBenchmarking.org
OpenArena Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 100 200 300 400 500 SE +/- 0.90, N = 3 SE +/- 12.69, N = 6 SE +/- 9.54, N = 6 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.61, N = 3 SE +/- 1.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.49, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 1.20, N = 3 418.93 347.18 479.85 304.77 115.13 152.67 67.27 66.00 98.93
Tesseract Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.40, N = 3 SE +/- 1.51, N = 3 SE +/- 3.17, N = 3 SE +/- 3.48, N = 3 SE +/- 0.90, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 SE +/- 0.28, N = 3 265.46 237.19 324.56 231.56 89.95 123.80 41.01 40.40 58.48
Tesseract Resolution: 3840 x 2160 NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 SE +/- 1.08, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 0.14, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.08, N = 3 111.46 98.53 173.04 90.18 32.82 47.54 17.84 17.42 24.43
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Low GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 90 180 270 360 450 SE +/- 2.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.92, N = 3 SE +/- 1.36, N = 3 SE +/- 1.80, N = 3 SE +/- 0.53, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 419.87 399.15 438.14 337.74 187.57 233.74 65.76 64.40 97.51
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: High GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 70 140 210 280 350 SE +/- 0.20, N = 3 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 0.63, N = 3 SE +/- 1.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 SE +/- 0.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 213.47 191.22 312.99 188.07 70.16 97.34 24.23 23.32 36.64
Xonotic Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 50 100 150 200 250 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 0.26, N = 3 SE +/- 1.51, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.51, N = 6 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 156.06 133.91 239.48 145.60 49.09 73.16 18.65 19.92 32.18
Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Team Fortress 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.75, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 SE +/- 0.42, N = 3 SE +/- 0.79, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 SE +/- 0.39, N = 3 111.53 111.25 111.61 124.90 102.19 121.33 50.00 48.82 72.27
OpenArena Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time NVIDIA 364.12 Nouveau 0f Nouveau Default OpenBenchmarking.org Milliseconds, Fewer Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time GTX 680 GTX 760 GTX 780 Ti 9 18 27 36 45 Min: 1 / Avg: 2.36 / Max: 6 Min: 1 / Avg: 2.77 / Max: 12 Min: 1 / Avg: 2.03 / Max: 11 Min: 1 / Avg: 3.26 / Max: 13 Min: 1 / Avg: 8.76 / Max: 22 Min: 1 / Avg: 6.62 / Max: 18 Min: 1 / Avg: 14.77 / Max: 41 Min: 1 / Avg: 15.16 / Max: 43 Min: 1 / Avg: 10.13 / Max: 26
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