That being said if youre looking for performance, the last thing you’d want is open source nvidia drivers; theyre built entirely off reverse engineering, which takes time.
Pretty sure that is not true anymore since a couple of years. Only newer cards can capitalise the gains from the ‘official’ open drivers though.
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
The 1.111B class (basically the numbered domains) cost ~1 dollar/yr.