… As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu… …
… ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing"…
… The Nouveau driver continues to provide open-source, out-of-the-box NVIDIA graphics support on modern Linux distribution that in recent years has become more capable thanks to going the NVIDIA GPU System Processor GSP route for supporting Turing and newer GPUs. …
… Similarly, even the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell support on Linux works out-of-the-box with the Nouveau open-source driver with the GSP firmware while the best support is using the packaged NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack. …