Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Comparison Shows Shortcomings
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 23 April 2013 at 01:58 AM EDT. Page 6 of 8. 61 Comments.
The Reaction Quake 3 game also remained much faster with the closed-source NVIDIA binary blob and the only situations where Nouveau was somewhat close to the speeds of the binary driver were the re-clocked low-end GeForce 9500GT and GT 220 graphics cards.