Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:48:04 -0500
From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@widomaker.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel
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Thu, 22 Jan 2004 @ 12:12 +0000, Kieran said:

> How strange. I run slack 9.1 and 2.6.1, just grabbed the 4496 
> pre-patched file from http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ and installed it 
> as I would on 2.4. Works a charm.

How's the performance?

I have found the 4496 and 5328 drivers lowered my performance.

5328 is supposed to be faster mip-mapping and faster when running with
vertical blank sync, but I didn't see it myself.  It also caused quite a
few sound artifacts from my Live! sound card.

Anyone done a driver-by-driver benchmark?

I got tired of it, but here's the performance order on my system from
fastest to slowest:

4620
3xxx (last stable 3xxx driver)
4496
5328

Mostly what I look for are not benchmark numbers, but notable hesitation
in programs and interactive response, and side effects like bad sound
artifacts.


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