New Nvidia GeForce Drivers Offer A 23% Performance Boost In A Variety Of Games
DSOGaming writes: "Nvidia has released some new drivers for its graphics cards today. According to the release notes, this new set of drivers offers 23% better performance in a variety of games for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs."
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Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 23% for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 314.07 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:"
Nvidia has not properly updated its website yet, so use the links found in the article in order to download them.
I don't understand how the drivers aren't on the manufacturer's website but are on some random website. I'll try downloading 'em, but I seriously doubt they're appropriate for my 460. Even Nvidia Update can't find a newer driver than 314.07.
EDIT: Guess I was wrong, they work. Although I have no clue what improvements in what games I can expect.
And people say consoles are the only things that get optimization.... My graphics card has almost doubled in power since release just from drivers and some light overclocking.
All the cool kids are doing it. Also im massively sleep deprived, am recovering from a very poor jogging experience and am currently fueled by anime and half a gallon of soy milk. So my sanity levels are pretty low.
Also on a related note, there is a lot of discussion on the long term value of both pc and console gaming at the moment, i guess all the rage wars has my mind in a rut.
Funny how some people earn money and can afford whatever they want... Funny how broke fools try to make them look bad for it. I am sure you are one of the guys that want to take his money and give everyone Geforce400 series cards instead.
No mention of an SLI profile for 3DMark 2013 either! I get a good score on a single GPU, soon as I enable SLI my score halfs in the FireStrike benchmark, I'm not alone with this either.
Maybe it's just my imagination, but it seems like Crysis 3 is running a bit smoother for me with this beta driver.
TXAA is still demanding, which I don't understand. It's supposed to be less demanding than MSAA but provide higher quality. TXAA was great in Assassin's Creed III, but in Crysis 3 it's incredibly demanding in either Medium or High forms. I guess I'll stick with SMAA Medium (SMAA + 2X MSAA) for now.
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"New in GeForce 314.14 Drivers
Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 23% for GeForce 400/500/600 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 314.07 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here is one example of measured gains:"
Nvidia has not properly updated its website yet, so use the links found in the article in order to download them.
EDIT: Guess I was wrong, they work. Although I have no clue what improvements in what games I can expect.
GeForce GTX 680:
quoted from the article
400/500 series cards probably haven't been tested in benchmarks.
Also on a related note, there is a lot of discussion on the long term value of both pc and console gaming at the moment, i guess all the rage wars has my mind in a rut.
SORT IT THE FUCK OUT NVIDIA!
TXAA is still demanding, which I don't understand. It's supposed to be less demanding than MSAA but provide higher quality. TXAA was great in Assassin's Creed III, but in Crysis 3 it's incredibly demanding in either Medium or High forms. I guess I'll stick with SMAA Medium (SMAA + 2X MSAA) for now.