NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:27AM from the breaking-barriers-sorta dept.

An anonymous reader writes: After being desired by NVIDIA Linux users for years, the proprietary GeForce graphics driver natively supports Wayland and Mir as an alternative to an X.Org Server. It's been a long time coming for the proprietary GPU driver stacks to support Wayland/Mir, but with today's 364.12 beta driver there is now the necessary DRM KMS kernel support and EGL extensions for being able to handle these next-generation display solutions. The new NVIDIA Linux driver also provides integrated Vulkan support, PRIME rendering support, and other additions.

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Re:Can't wait to see the performance comparisons by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-21 05:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

Arma 3 Bechmark results:
https://i.imgur.com/UfpUI5p.png
https://i.imgur.com/ypWsvqz.png
https://i.imgur.com/haTiRLZ.png
Worth noting, the port was achieved using a DX wrapper which converts DX calls into OpenGL. With an extra abstraction layer, it's still performing on par or better than Windows.