Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. Nvidia 580 Linux Gaming&Compute Driver Performance
13 days ago
- #Open-Source
- #Linux
- #GPU
- Comparison of open-source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux drivers for gaming, graphics, and compute performance.
- Focus on NVK Vulkan driver, Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan, and Rusticl OpenCL compute driver.
- Testing conducted on RTX 40 Ada and RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs.
- Previous testing in July had bugs for RTX 50 Blackwell, now resolved.
- NVK driver has added more Vulkan API extensions and performance optimizations.
- Tested configurations: NVK (Ubuntu 25.10, Linux 6.17, Mesa 25.2), NVK Git (Linux 6.18, Mesa 26.0-devel), NVIDIA 580 (Linux 6.17).
- GPUs tested: GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 5080.
- Benchmarks included OpenGL, Vulkan, and OpenCL workloads.