Nvidia's frame limiter also for linux?

Question

Hi, I was wondering if that pretty darn good fps limiter that's in nvidia's windows drivers (I believe from 290.53 on) is also in nvidia's linux drivers.
Read through basically everything I could find but I couldn't find a hint on the fps limiter for linux.
So I was hoping someone here knows about that.

Answer 1

Checked that, couldn't find it in there. Though that doesn't mean overly much, the docs have always been missing a lot. That's why I was hoping someone here knows more about it.
Well yes, vsync does limit the number frames that are being put out to the refresh rate of the display. But that has it's glitches, for example if the frame rate drops for a moment below that given rate. That's what triple buffering is for but that has it's own downsides amongst losing one frame, losing video memory to the extra backbuffer and in some cases it still doesn't prevent tearing.
The frame limiter though lets me limit the rendering/computing of the frames directly: Instead of computing everything to the max and then discarding the excess frames, this frame limiter (unlike very most limiters in common applications) actually has the graphics card only compute those x nmuber of frames that I set it to. Thus decreasing the load on the graphics card. That is what I'm personally opting for the most.