Nouveau Git Maxwell Better Nouveau Maxwell performance improvements. Tests by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com. GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170104, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 17.0.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GTX 980: 11 Jan Git: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170104, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.1 Mesa 17.0.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170104, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.0.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 GTX 980: 14 Jan Git: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 16.10, Kernel: 4.10.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20170104, Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: nouveau 1.0.13, OpenGL: 4.3 Mesa 17.0.0-devel Gallium 0.4, Vulkan: 1.0.21, Compiler: GCC 6.2.0 20161005, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 BioShock Infinite Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 23.59 |========================= GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 13.18 |============== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 44.19 |=============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 16.85 |================== Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 26.69 |===================== GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 23.92 |=================== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 59.03 |=============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 34.24 |=========================== Dota 2 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Renderer: OpenGL Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 11.37 |===================== GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 6.47 |============ GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 25.33 |=============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 8.67 |================ ET: Legacy 2.75 Renderer: Renderer2 - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 138.23 |================================= GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 78.43 |=================== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 193.40 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 88.17 |===================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 105.57 |=================================== GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 80.93 |=========================== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 138.07 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 89.13 |============================== Portal Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 101.74 |======================= GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 63.56 |============== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 204.98 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 78.97 |================== Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 68.15 |==================== GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 51.31 |=============== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 155.86 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 64.54 |=================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Low Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 329.65 |============================================= GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 213.33 |============================= GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 339.12 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 219.06 |============================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . 110.22 |=========================== GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... 75.72 |================== GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . 188.38 |============================================== GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... 86.16 |===================== OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GTX 750 Ti: 11 Jan Git . MIN: 5.0 AVG: 9.4 MAX: 21.0 GTX 980: 11 Jan Git .... MIN: 5.0 AVG: 12.3 MAX: 26.0 GTX 750 Ti: 14 Jan Git . MIN: 4.0 AVG: 7.3 MAX: 20.0 GTX 980: 14 Jan Git .... MIN: 4.0 AVG: 11.1 MAX: 26.0