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Nouveau is extremely slow, and was slow on several of my machines for at least 5 years. I'm not sure how it's any better.
by KptMarchewa 6y ago
Nouveau is extremely slow, and was slow on several of my machines for at least 5 years. I'm not sure how it's any better.
- rhn_mk1 6y agoNouveau is only slow because about 5 years ago Nvidia started signing the card firmware, excluding Nouveau from using some features like setting appropriate clock speeds. They release some pared down firmware that Nouveau is allowed to use, but not after years from release have passed. Before that mess (around the 900 series), nouveau was fast.
- smichel17 6y agoCan confirm; I had a laptop (Dell XPS 14) with a GT630m and Nouveau worked well enough that I never felt the need to install the proprietary drivers over 4 years of use.
- Macha 6y agoI'm replying to the parent comment about AMD pre-open-source drivers. So we're already 5 years ago. I had my Linux install in a VM for a number of years because fglrx was an aggravating experience (unstable, often broke on kernel updates) to use and radeon had abysmal performance on my 290x. To the point that my laptops 540m (on nouveau) would outperform the 290x under linux. I still have that 290x in one of my systems, and since amdgpu supported it it has been a very pleasant experience. But even that took a while as they started with 3xx and supported the 4xx cards before going back for the 2xx cards.