Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 6 May 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 22 Comments.
The Nouveau-based driver stack was hitting segmentation faults when trying to run GravityMark in most combinations where as the NVIDIA R595 driver was running fine. At 4K with Vulkan the Nouveau performance was around half the speed of the NVIDIA R595 driver.
GPUScore: Breaking Limit also failed to run on the NVK driver.
3DMark Wild Life Extreme allowed for a better NVK Vulkan showing with Nouveau with this NVIDIA RTX PRO graphics card reaching around 85% the performance of the NVIDIA Vulkan driver in their R595 Linux driver package.