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BrokeBody
July 13th, 2007, 04:38 PM
The test was made with GtkPerf (http://gtkperf.sourceforge.net/).

Results:

Nouveau: 24.86 sec
NV: 40.78 sec

wich means progress of 64% in comparement with nv driver. This is a limited 2D test and it doesn't include 3D capabilities, but it certainly points that Nouveau project is on the right way. Most of you probably know that Canonical is giving help and support to this project. More info on Nouveau web site (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/).
Ex-Cyber
July 14th, 2007, 02:49 AM
Nouveau: 24.86 sec
NV: 40.78 sec[/url].
Isn't "nv" the X.Org driver for NVidia chipsets? Are you talking about nVidia's proprietary drivers, or the one integrated into X.Org?
jiminycricket
July 14th, 2007, 02:58 AM
Isn't "nv" the X.Org driver for NVidia chipsets? Are you talking about nVidia's proprietary drivers, or the one integrated into X.Org?

Yes it's nv compared to Nouveau that they're talking about.

nv is the nVidia open source (but obfuscated) 2d driver
nvidia is the nVidia closed source 3d driver

Still, the fact that open source beats proprietary (or effectively proprietary as nv is) is something important to note. nVidia's 3d driver still has many annoying bugs that open source will fix.
bread eyes
July 14th, 2007, 03:36 AM
It doesn't really concern me but that's nice.
PatrickMay16
July 14th, 2007, 04:00 AM
It doesn't really concern me but that's nice.

If it doesn't concern you then why even spend the time to reply?
~LoKe
July 14th, 2007, 04:10 AM
Not really sure if this even means anything. Once we start getting into 3D I'll be more inclined to look into it.

I hope it all goes well.
steven8
July 14th, 2007, 05:09 AM
I think it sounds most promising, and I have great faith in the Nouveau devs. Great work!!!
bread eyes
July 14th, 2007, 06:05 AM
If it doesn't concern you then why even spend the time to reply?

boredom
fyllekajan
July 14th, 2007, 07:48 AM
Isn't the title misleading? I want all the performance I can get out of my hardware. So I use the nvidia proprietary driver (but then again I also want 3D capabilities). It's nice to see open source alternatives in development though.
Ex-Cyber
July 14th, 2007, 08:22 AM
One post (http://linuxupdate.blogspot.com/2007/07/nouveau-driver-2d-performance-exceeds.html) reporting these results was updated with a comparison of nv to nvidia, but it's not on the same hardware as the nv vs. nouveau test. It's hard to draw a specific conclusion from this test since it introduces so many variables. There are still questions of configuration, but overall I'd say it looks good.
slimdog360
July 14th, 2007, 08:58 AM
they didn't even work for me, they even crashed kdm.