Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Dec 2005 13:23 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
Here is a test concerning NVIDIA SLI on Linux (in this case, OpenSUSE 10.0 OSS). "With our previous article that we published moments ago, demonstrating the performance of the GeForce 7800GTX 256MB under Linux with the 1.0-8174 Rel80 drivers that were finally released today, there's no disputing that the Windows XP NVIDIA ForceWare users can generally see a significantly higher frame-rate with the same hardware components, in addition to other features that aren't yet supported by the proprietary NVIDIA Linux drivers. However, how do NVIDIA's initial Rel80 Linux drivers (1.0-8174) fair in the world of Scalable Link Interface?"
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2005-07-03
Well, I have a slightly older card then what they're testing (Geforce FX 5600 Ultra). Obviously it isn't really old per say, but in relation to there test. At any rate, UT2004 happens to get around 80-110 FPS (it's not very steady) now as opposed to the 35-60 it used to get just before on the other drivers. This may be the chance for some older cards to start really showing what they're actually capable of. I can imagine newer cards just simply having far too much muscle to see a phenominal difference.
One other odd thing I found, though, is that with this that fonts are rendered much differently with it. I'm not really sure why that is exactly, but my fonts have by far changed. The size of my size 8px font (on the older driver) is the same size as 11px font now. Kind of odd, and Firefox doesn't seem to be handling it well for whatever reasons. Overall, a nice change by far though.