When shaders are off in OpenGL, some things aren't culled.
Using Debian 10, on a nVidia GeForce 660, official nVidia drivers
goldentails@debian-desktop:~/GoldenTailsSRB2$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 49152 4
drm_kms_helper 208896 1 nvidia_drm
drm 495616 7 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm
nvidia_modeset 1097728 9 nvidia_drm
nvidia 18247680 327 nvidia_modeset
ipmi_msghandler 65536 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
Edited by Golden