Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 28 November 2025 at 10:44 AM EST. Page 4 of 10. 39 Comments.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Low, Renderer: OpenGL. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: High, Renderer: OpenGL. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Ultra, Renderer: OpenGL. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Unigine Superposition benchmark with settings of Resolution: 1920 x 1080, Mode: Fullscreen, Quality: Medium, Renderer: OpenGL. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

While Unigine Heaven with NVK+Zink was at ~70% the performance of the NVIDIA 580 OpenGL driver, with the Unigine Superposition benchmark the delta widened.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Low. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: High. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultra. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 Xonotic benchmark with settings of Resolution: 3840 x 2160, Effects Quality: Ultimate. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

With the Xonotic open-source OpenGL game, at low quality settings Nouveau/NVK was performing quite well but with the higher quality visuals the gap widened compared to the NVIDIA 580 Linux driver.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: Off, MSAA: On, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: On, MSAA: Off, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

👁 yquake2 benchmark with settings of Renderer: Vulkan, AF: Off, MSAA: Off, Resolution: 3840 x 2160. RTX 5080: NVIDIA 580 was the fastest.

The YQuake2 open-source Quake II game rendered using Vulkan shows more performance still left on the table for Nouveau/NVK compared to the NVIDIA 580 driver.

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