Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 July 2025 at 11:38 AM EDT. Page 5 of 7. 40 Comments.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: High, Renderer: OpenGL. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Medium, Renderer: OpenGL. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Unvanquished benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Medium. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Low. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultra. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultimate. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

Zink for providing OpenGL support atop the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver was working out well in terms of not crashing and rendering correctly but still the packaged NVIDIA Linux driver was much faster for these generation-old NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: Off, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: OpenGL 3.x, AF: On, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: OpenGL 3.x, AF: Off, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: OpenGL 3.x, AF: Off, MSAA: Off, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. NVIDIA: RTX 4080 SUPER was the fastest.

YQuake2 with both OpenGL and Vulkan was much faster on the official NVIDIA Linux driver stack.

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