>”You should try out nouveau it might give you a performance gain over Nv, even with 3d”
-Bryan to David Harding at Ubuntu Loco Lan Party.
Bryan proved himself wrong today, but is also going to be tracking performance on a dailyish basis to see when it does perform better.
Check out: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pdtFv6YrWoXq6zCiFOSE2PQ
Important disclaimer: Nouveau doesn’t currently claim to support 3d at all. (It will eventually though). Bryan wrongfully claimed it did.
For where Nouveau really is feature wise check out: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix