As you have seen, the difference in perfomance is huge.

And there is basically one main motive for this being so.

Best,

A.

After installing nvidia driver in Daedalus i took the chance to perform a couple of benchmarks
to see how libre nouveau performs relative to propriatery nvidia gpu drivers.

I use two benchmarks : glmark2 and unigine's Valley 2013 .(Superposition 2017 wasnt executing with nouveau)

$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

System
Platform:     Linux 6.1.0-33-amd64 x86_64
CPU model:     Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz (3597MHz) x8
GPU model:     NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 PCI Express 535.216.01 (4096MB) x1
Settings
Render:     OpenGL
Mode:     1440x900 fullscreen
Preset     Custom
Quality     High'

FPS:     99.8
Score:     4176
Min FPS:     43.3
Max FPS: 167.8

FPS:     10.8
Score:     452
Min FPS:     7.5
Max FPS:     16.5

glmark2 Score: 842
glmark2 Score: 17719

Something else that i would like to benchmark is the time it takes dekstop process to open their window.
It seem to me in nouveau the window took more time to appear.

ps : I align here with a mainstream mentality that focus on certain aspects of a software use. But from another
libre distro community perspective thinking in terms of community workflow integration , security , not to mention
of course the ability to study and alter the code the nouveau would be a better choice. Of course i cant help to
wonder why some libre projects like X server , nouveau seem so sterile in terms of forks in contrast with other
areas like window management. I would make a first guess that the more closer you get to the hardware the
less flexible a programmers becomes.