AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's

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In a 15-way graphics card comparison on Linux (http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=18688) of both the open and closed-source drivers, it was found that the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver is much faster than the open-source NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 13.04. The open-source NVIDIA driver is developed entirely by the community via reverse-engineering, but for Linux desktop users, is this enough? The big issue for the open-source 'Nouveau' driver is that it doesn't yet fully support re-clocking the graphics processor so that the hardware can actually run at its rated speeds. With the closed-source AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce results, the drivers were substantially faster than their respective open-source driver. Between NVIDIA and AMD on Linux, the NVIDIA closed-source driver was generally doing better than AMD Catalyst.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/02/1421258/amds-open-source-linux-driver-trounces-nvidias