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Nvidia Linux Driver Performance Matches Windows Drivers

posted by n1 on Monday March 31 2014, @02:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-the-linux-gaming-pc dept.

keplr writes:

Phoronix, a 10-year old linux-focused tech website, has benchmarked the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers and compared the results under Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 8.1. The Ubuntu driver actually performed slightly ahead in a few tests. While Intel and AMD are considered better citizens in the FLOSS community, Nvidia has enjoyed a lead in technical performance with their proprietary drivers.

With increasing support from hardware manufacturers, and big names like Valve backing Linux, one of the last remaining pillars of Windows dominance on the desktop continues to be chipped away.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @05:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31 2014, @05:19AM (#23490)

    binary drivers create artificial obsolescence

    Yup. How much MORE money do they have to lose before they figure out that producing a proper FOSS device driver is like printing money?
    Here's a quarter billion bucks they pissed away:
    nvidia-loses-10-million-gpu-order-over-awful-linux -support [inquisitr.com]

    -- gewg_

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  • (Score: 1) by Wootery on Monday March 31 2014, @02:32PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday March 31 2014, @02:32PM (#23699)

    This is excellent, but I wonder what the Loongson (that article mistakenly says "Longsoon") will be going with as an alternative. AMD's offerings? PowerVR? I presume they're not focused on high graphical performance.

    • (Score: 2) by Aighearach on Monday March 31 2014, @03:24PM

      by Aighearach (2621) on Monday March 31 2014, @03:24PM (#23715)

      The chip is used in low power embedded solutions, tablets, etc. And for example the famous open source laptop Lemote Yeeloong (not only the board is open source, the dev boards for each subsystem are too)

      No, it is not for "high graphical performance." It is for low power usage. You probably wouldn't want a MIPS-compatible processor in the same place as high-performance graphics anyways. But you would often want basic, open, standards-based OpenGL support.