Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1 vs. NVIDIA Open-source Nouveau versus NVIDIA Linux OpenGL graphics tests. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Nouveau Default: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau Default: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau Default: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau Default: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau 0f: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau 0f: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Nouveau 0f: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.8.1-040801-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.12, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 12.1.0-devel- padoka PPA Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 NVIDIA: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB (1006/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 NVIDIA: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB (980/3004MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 NVIDIA: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3072MB (875/3500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 NVIDIA: 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: 256GB INTEL SSDPEKKW256G7, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6144MB (999/3505MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-42-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.4.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: NVIDIA 370.28, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Vulkan: 1.0.8, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609 + LLVM 3.8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Unigine Valley 1.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 8.87 |=== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 8.55 |=== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 15.70 |====== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 16.33 |====== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 47.54 |================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 14.06 |===== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 23.60 |========= NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 62.76 |======================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 54.24 |===================== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 90.35 |================================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 107.54 |========================================= Unigine Heaven 4.0 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 5.61 |== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 5.58 |== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 11.42 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 14.82 |===== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 35.22 |============ Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 11.82 |==== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 20.02 |======= NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 47.46 |================ NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 42.90 |=============== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 88.18 |============================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 120.35 |========================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Pixmark Piano - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 54 |===== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 49 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 88 |======== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 38 |=== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 196 |================= Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 50 |==== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 90 |======== NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 217 |=================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 169 |=============== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 353 |=============================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 506 |============================================ GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Triangle - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 5840 |= Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 5811 |= Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 8336 |== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 25012 |===== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 66854 |============= Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 20094 |==== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 30841 |====== NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 131341 |========================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 128802 |========================= NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 188485 |===================================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 210495 |========================================= GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 135 |== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 137 |== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 237 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 277 |==== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 1188 |=================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 345 |====== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 661 |=========== NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 1325 |===================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 1034 |================= NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 2076 |================================= NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 2668 |=========================================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 3840 x 2160 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 17.79 |=== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 17.20 |=== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 27.75 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 37.78 |====== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 133.27 |===================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 43.50 |======= Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 66.87 |========== NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 165.35 |========================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 143.84 |====================== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 251.83 |======================================= NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 262.66 |========================================= Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 33.93 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 33.37 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 48.94 |===== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 70.19 |======== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 219.78 |======================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 93.34 |========== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 115.05 |============= NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 263.35 |============================= NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 237.05 |========================== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 322.38 |=================================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 376.35 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... MIN: 3.0 AVG: 16.8 MAX: 50.0 Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 16.9 MAX: 50.0 Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 11.7 MAX: 38.0 Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . MIN: 1.0 AVG: 8.0 MAX: 30.0 Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 3.8 MAX: 34.0 Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 10.0 MAX: 67.0 Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 7.0 MAX: 38.0 NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.4 MAX: 8.0 NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.7 MAX: 5.0 NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.0 MAX: 6.0 NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... MIN: 1.0 AVG: 2.0 MAX: 7.0 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 59.67 |===== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 58.77 |===== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 85.37 |======= Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 124.57 |========== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 265.90 |====================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 99.97 |======== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 141.20 |============ NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 418.63 |================================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 360.43 |============================== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 491.73 |======================================== NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 499.97 |========================================= Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 8.13 |=== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 8.60 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 10.63 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 8.50 |=== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 49.10 |==================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 16.73 |======= Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 17.50 |======= NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 98.90 |========================================= NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 99.73 |========================================= NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 99.27 |========================================= NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 100.03 |========================================= Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Nouveau Default: GTX 680 .... 23.64 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 760 .... 23.17 |==== Nouveau Default: GTX 780 Ti . 37.45 |======= Nouveau Default: GTX 980 Ti . 30.46 |====== Nouveau 0f: GTX 680 ......... 139.45 |========================== Nouveau 0f: GTX 760 ......... 44.13 |======== Nouveau 0f: GTX 780 Ti ...... 66.70 |============ NVIDIA: GTX 680 ............. 216.24 |======================================== NVIDIA: GTX 760 ............. 183.34 |================================== NVIDIA: GTX 780 Ti .......... 221.49 |========================================= NVIDIA: GTX 980 Ti .......... 220.81 |=========================================