Nouveau Driver Remains Much Slower Than NVIDIA's Official Driver
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 4 January 2013 at 12:00 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 107 Comments.
The Urban Terror results are similar to most of the other ioquake3 games.
For the VDrift racing game, the Nouveau driver is faster, but that's because the Mesa/Gallium3D drivers don't handle the open-source game shaders correctly. These VDrift results are basically void when comparing the open and closed-source drivers.
The binary driver out of Santa Clara continues to win...