NVIDIA 2010 Driver Year In Review
At the end of each year for the past five years we have delivered "year in review" articles looking at the performance of NVIDIA's (and ATI/AMD's) proprietary Linux drivers. Both in terms of new features introduced during the year in their driver updates and benchmarking the driver releases to see how the performance has evolved over twelve months. With 2010 coming to an end, it is time for this year's driver reviews. We are starting this year seeing how the NVIDIA performance has matured in 2010.
This year though for NVIDIA there was not too much going on for end-users, which are both good and bad. NVIDIA's Linux driver (as well as their Solaris and FreeBSD drivers too) are at a near feature and performance parity to the Windows graphics driver. Though NVIDIA's Unix team has fell behind a bit this year in that the GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" GPUs still lack support for overclocking functionality via CoolBits like they support for older ASICs, but this isn't a huge deal and will hopefully be resolved in a future update. One noteworthy feature missing from their Linux stack though that does not look like they will be supporting anytime soon is their Optimus Technology for notebook GPU switching under Linux. They also lack the necessary requirements to properly support the Wayland Display Server under Linux, and while NVIDIA has no plans to support it right now, they will likely do so when Wayland begins gaining traction on the Linux desktop as a viable alternative to an X.Org Server.
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