Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster

An anonymous reader writes "With the Linux 3.16 kernel the Nouveau driver now supports re-clocking for letting the NVIDIA GPU cores and video memory on this reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver run at their designed frequencies. Up to now the Nouveau driver has been handicapped to running at whatever (generally low) clock frequencies the video BIOS programmed the hardware to at boot time, but with Linux 3.16 is experimental support for up-clocking to the hardware-rated speeds. The results show the open-source NVIDIA driver running multiple times faster, but it doesn't work for all NVIDIA hardware, causes lock-ups for some GPUs at some frequencies, and isn't yet dynamically controlled. However, it appears to be the biggest break-through in years for this open-source NVIDIA driver that up to now has been too slow for most Linux games."

Re:THIS is a potentially "huge score" for Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm against the rampant indiscriminate prescription of drugs, driven by money thirsty bigpharma.

but I can tell the truth/how it is (from my perspective @ least), you're in need of drugs

Re:THIS is a potentially "huge score" for Linux

[PopeRatzo]

The "year of Linux on the Desktop" we've all heard for a decade++ here isn't out of the question now because of this... you get the games ported to Linux now, more?

Does your choice of operating system preclude your ability to construct sentences in English?

Clearly, you are a native English speaker. What happened to you, lad?

Re:THIS is a potentially "huge score" for Linux

[drinkypoo]

Clearly, you are a native English speaker. What happened to you, lad?

His speech double-plus good.

Obviously, the language of the future will in fact have the double-plusses in it, but it will be missing some articles. This lad is a time-traveler!