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 6 of 10. 39 Comments.
Llama 3.1 8B showed the NVK Vulkan driver making progress but performance still well short of the official NVIDIA Vulkan driver.
Mistral performed well for text generation with NVK while the NVIDIA 580 driver was multiple times faster for prompt processing.