Nouveau Linux 4.8 + Mesa 12.1-dev vs. NVIDIA OpenGL Performance
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 14 October 2016 at 09:48 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 54 Comments.
The GeForce GTX 680 with Nouveau once re-clocked can perform pretty decent in a number of OpenGL Linux games when considering it's a reverse-engineered, community-driven driver.
Not even Xonotic can run out-of-the-box on Nouveau with decent frame-rates.