NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 26 July 2024 at 01:19 PM EDT. Page 2 of 4. 64 Comments.

Using the NVIDIA 555.58.02 Linux driver I tested both the NVIDIA RTX A2000 and RTX A4000 graphics cards when switching between the kernel driver options. No other changes were made to the software or hardware during testing.

👁 Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: NVIDIA CUDA GPU. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: NVIDIA RTX GPU. MIT GPL: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 OctaneBench benchmark with settings of Total Score. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: OpenCL GPU, Scene: Bedroom. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Fishy Cat, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: NVIDIA CUDA. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

👁 LuxMark benchmark with settings of OpenCL Device: GPU, Scene: Hotel. Proprietary: RTX A4000 was the fastest.

Across a range of different GPU-accelerated creator workloads, the performance of the open-source NVIDIA kernel modules matched that of the proprietary driver. No loss in performance going the open-source kernel driver route.

64 Comments - Next Page

Page: 1 2 3 4 Next Page

URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-555-open/2

⇱ NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review - Phoronix

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver