Nouveau Alternatives

Nouveau is described as ': Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards' and is an app. There are four alternatives to Nouveau for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere Hypervisor, Mac and Windows apps. The best Nouveau alternative is AMD MxGPU, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nouveau are NVIDIA vGPU, Virgil 3D GPU project and Kazan.

More about Nouveau
Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Nouveau alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. AMD MxGPU icon

    AMD MxGPU

     2 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    AMD MxGPU is the world’s first hardware-based virtualized GPU solution, is built on industry standard SR-IOV (Single-Root I/O Virtualization) technology and allows up to 16 virtualized users per physical GPU to work remotely.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OpenGL
    • SolidWorks
    • Citrix XenServer
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft DirectX
    • XCP-ng
    • Xen
    AMD MxGPU screenshot 1
     

    • AMD MxGPU is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Nouveau.

    • AMD MxGPU is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Nouveau.

    • AMD MxGPU is Free and Open SourceNouveau is also Free and Open Source
  2. NVIDIA vGPU icon

    NVIDIA vGPU

     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    NVIDIA virtual GPU (vGPU) is the industry's most advanced technology for sharing the power of NVIDIA GPUs across virtual machines (VMs) and virtual applications. Amp up your VDI environment and deliver a superior experience to every user.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Citrix XenServer
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • XCP-ng
    • Xen
    Virtualize the GPU
     
  4. Virgil 3D GPU project icon

    Virgil 3D GPU project

     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Virgil is a research project to investigate the possibility of creating a virtual 3D GPU for use inside qemu virtual machines, that allows the guest operating system to use the capabilities of the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • QEMU
     
  5. Kazan icon

    Kazan

     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    We seek investors, sponsors, engineers and potential customers, who are interested in the creation and use of an entirely libre low-power mobile class system-on-a-chip. This is a hybrid CPU, VPU and GPU software and hardware project for an open gpu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
4 of 4 Nouveau alternatives