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It was ~5% because there was no reclocking whatsoever without GSP support. Nouveau was never most performant driver, but developers still been able to achieve
by SXX 3y ago
It was ~5% because there was no reclocking whatsoever without GSP support.
Nouveau was never most performant driver, but developers still been able to achieve something like 50-80% performance on 6xx 7xx series cards before Nvidia started to signed firmware shenanigans.
It's not like I defending the driver performance, but considering for decades it was purely reverse engineering effort by skeleton team < 10 people their achievements are outstanding.
- samus 3y agoI agree. For years the effort was destined to only ever achieve 10% max of its potential performance. Also, there were architectural changes which probably rendered previous optimizations ineffectual.