NVIDIA Driver -> Does it require any settings?

Good day all,

I would like to ask the question regarding post-adjustments of Nvidia driver, if its required or not.

Situation:

I have 2 systems:

  1. Lenovo Laptop with 8GB ram, i3 6006U and HD 520, SSD
  2. Desktop Ryzen 5 1500x, 32 GB RAM, GTX 1650, SSD

Both systems are in KDE of Opensuse 15.2 with identical setup.

Both systems are running same Siemens NX 12.02 (3D modeling CAD software) and shows some weird comparative performance. Large model (100 parts) works same slow on HD 520 and GTX 1650, while in Windows environment, HD 520 stays same, but GTX 1650 doesn’t show any slow processing.

Question:

Is there any conf file which is required to adjust in order to have better performance of Nvidia driver? I tried to play with Nvidia Xserver settings app, which comes with driver itself, but no effect.

Thank you in advance for suggestions.

Regarding 1) does your Lenovo laptop have an Nvidia GPU? If not, Nvidia driver won’t do anything. Regarding 2) what’s wrong with your current GTX 1650 setting? You will always have to balance between performance and quality.

The only thing I would recommend for rendering performance improvement is to use Xrender compositor.

SJLPHI, Lenovo doesn’t have a dedicated GPU, only the HD520 one. I can’t say exactly whats wrong with GTX 1650, but I hoped to have better performance with it than HD520 has in same application. Currently both PC’s perform samr. Can you please explain more about Xrender and what to do to get it on? I am new to the Linux, it took me a months to get it to know in general and to be able to set it up and runn all apps. But I really love it now.

Thank you.

So, first you should delete and forget about Nvidia driver on your Lenovo laptop. It can only cause issues than actually doing anything useful.

Now, for GTX 1650, you can just open the quick launcher (you can open with with “Windows” Meta key) and look for “compositor” and you are probably using OpenGL2.0 or 3.1, you just need to switch to XRender. This will give you a “slight” boost in animation and graphics rendering after you reboot.

If it is really poorly performing you should first make sure that your GPU is being used and the driver is up to date.

SJPHI, first of all thank you for the advice - Xrender is truly better, not so laggy.
And there was a misunderstanding - i dont have a NVIDIA driver on laptop, as its only has an Intel graphics. What I meant is how come Intel graphics has the same performance as Nvidia (on other PC) under linux.

Yes, I misunderstood, sorry. Yeah if your Intel GPU laptop has the similar performance as desktop with a modern Nvidia GPU, something must be off.