Well… it is an out-of-tree kernel driver that is made by the same company, and the userspace drivers are still proprietary.

This says NOTHING other than “wow NVIDIA can write good code (open source) that doesnt suck”?

Anyone tried this beta version yet? Any idea how stable it is?

Performance parity? Heck no, not until this bug with the GSP firmware is solved: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/538

I been using the open kernel driver with my Debian Workstation, it has worked better then the default driver by far with the Debian backport Kernel, I installed it using the Nvidia Cuda Repo.

Woohoo!