Nouveau’s OpenGL Performance Approaches The NVIDIA Driver

The community-created Nouveau driver that’s open-source and is written by clean-room reverse-engineering the NVIDIA binary display driver, has reached a serious milestone. For low-end NVIDIA GPUs, the Nouveau driver based upon the Mesa Gallium3D architecture is now as fast, or even faster, than NVIDIA’s official proprietary driver.

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