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Trying out nouveau with the new kernel (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by driveway@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm a bit confused about what's going on but as far as I understand, due to NVIDIA allowing redistribution of their blobs, nouveau can now set the clock speed of GPUs. This is giving us a huge boost in performance in nouveau.

How exactly do I test this out? Arch wiki does not say anything about NVK, but I see it's mentioned on everything about this change. Do I need to do anything to get/use NVK other than uninstalling the proprietary driver? And, are we getting a performance boost only on Vulkan?

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd be curious if there are any equivalent to ProtonDB on both compatibility and performance. The NVIDIA drivers are some of the last closed pieces in an otherwise mostly open system. I know I can get by with nouveau for 2D but if I want to model with Blender or play Baldur's Gate, even SteamVR games, I remain skeptical not just on absolute feasiblity (will it run) but also performances, i.g can I get more than 5fps.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago

you mean right now or in the future? because right now, forget about it. it's substantially better than it was before, but performance is still far behind proprietary drivers. it can do 3D, but don't expect the latest and greatest to work well. older games are much more likely to work well.