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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    6 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.