On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux).
If Debian and NVidia decide not to keep the driver available with newer releases, you're stuck with nouveau. I ran glmark2 on my primary desktop, with NVidia Quadro K2200 and the 535 driver. The score was 4455. Then I ran it on another desktop with GeForce GT 630. nvidia-detect says it's "not supported by any driver version up to 535.183.01." Searching for the driver at NVidia says I need the 340 driver -- which has not been available since Debian 10. So that computer is running nouveau. The glmark2 score is 29. An NVidia driver (if it could be installed in Debian 12.5) would apparently be about 150 times faster.
