New Nvidia Drivers Boost Up Fermi Performance
The new drivers that came out with GTX 460 support make the entire Fermi family faster.
Along with the GeForce GTX 460 release yesterday, Nvidia also brought out some new drivers to support it. But even for those without the new 460 GPU, any gamer with a Fermi-based GPU will be able to realize some performance gains in the 258.96 WHQL-candidate drivers.
· Adds additional performance increases for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games (these improvements are in addition to the previously reported Release 256 improvements). The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured with GeForce GTX 480. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
- Up to 11% in Aliens vs. Predator (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
- Up to 7% in Crysis: Warhead (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Gamer)
- Up to 4% in H.A.W.X (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High)
- Up to 10% in Just Cause 2 (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF - Concrete Jungle)
- Up to 6% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
- Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
- Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
- Up to 12% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
- Up to 4% in World in Conflict (SLI – 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Grab those drivers right here (be sure to select the GTX 460 in the pull down to get the new release mentioned in this post).
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any chance of a test to see if these are real and how they scale with processor, 10% in stalker at 19x12, does that mean nothing at 16x10, or a lesser amount? Probably best to wait till they are properly released though.
Which means it is now better value than the 5830. Im decided.
Why do I have trouble in believeing these numbers? And why doesn't Nvidia state how you get these increases in performance i.e what settings, resoultion, which level in the game etc.
i'm going to give them a try once they are released and see what I can see.
I know that xbtialbs.com did a review of original ati drivers vs mature drivers prior to fermi release, i'd hope they'd do it again for nvidia drivers. I'll post here if I manage to do anything this weekend. It will only be a few games i'm afraid.
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