Nvidia’s Next Driver.....

[12122012]

http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-337-50-beta-performance-driver

Nvidia’s Next Driver Will Bring Massive Performance Improvements In CPU Heavy Games

It seems that Nvidia has been working on a truly amazing new driver for its graphics cards. Even though MS has just announced DX12 – a new API that promises to offer better performance on CPU heavy titles – the green team is developing a new driver that will lessen the CPU overhead on a variety of DX11 titles.

According to the graphs that Nvidia has released, its new driver – that is planned for release in a couple of weeks – will offer performance similar to AMD’s Mantle in both Star Swarm and THIEF. It’s pretty amazing what Nvidia is doing with its driver skills, and we cannot wait to see whether the green team’s changes will affect other CPU bound titles.

As we can see, with this new driver Nvidia’s flagship – GeForce GTX 780Ti – will be able to compete against AMD’s 290X. The interesting thing here is that Nvidia’s card will rival AMD’s card with the latter running via AMD’s latest API, Mantle.

Given the fact that Nvidia has only provided two scenarios, one has to wonder whether the green team has included ‘global’ tweaks that will improve performance on all CPU-heavy games or ‘specific’ tweaks for THIEF and Star Swarm.

Nvidia’s Next Driver Will Bring Massive Performance Improvements In CPU Heavy Games | DSOGaming | The Dark Side Of Gaming

 

[MevolutionX]

The death of mantle. Thanks to AMD for waking Nvidia & Microsoft up...

 

[FinalTidus]

This is why I always stick to Nvidia.

Their driver development is truly amazing.

Hope that this will boost my ancient GTX 660Ti performance on CPU heavy games.

 

[GeForce]

That's quite a big jump in performance. Can't wait to utilize those APIs

 

[fockyerdod3r]

****i, I believe long ago they know what to do to improve performance but they rather sit back relax cause AMD no threat.

 

[summersky1986]

Song dahhhhhhh

-gtx780ti user

 

[GeForce]

Where got time for AMD.. There's an obvious reason why the warranty so short-lived for AMD cards against NVIDIA cards.
As e Linustechtips comparison video between liquid cooled $400 R9 290 + >$100 worth water cooling parts VS aircooled $500 GTX 780. He still picked the Nvidia card..

 

[12122012]

Official NVIDIA 337.50 Beta

The new GeForce 337.50 BETA Performance drivers are now available for download. This driver brings a number of new features and performance optimizations to our customers. Some of the highlighted new features include:

-DirectX 11 and SLI performance optimizations of up to 71%
-NVIDIA GeForce Experience 2.0 with numerous enhnancements such as Desktop Capture using ShadowPlay
-New and updated SLI profiles
-3D Vision optimizations and enhancements
-Support for the new features introduced with the NVIDIA SHIELD April OTA software update
-Support for new NVIDIA GeForce 800M series notebook GPUs

Please visit the NIDIA GeForce.com 337.50 BETA Performance Driver Article for much more information:

GeForce 337.50 Beta Performance Drivers Increase Frame Rates By Up To 71% | GeForce

 

[pa9797]

Wow! should i hoot another Titan to SLI

 

[aaaflyer]

Nvidia's New Driver Tested & Benchmarked, Comes Up Short on Expectations. - Tech News and Reviews - Linus Tech Tips

 

[Humster]

Guess everything is still bound by Physics.

 

[haylui]

wah so many ppl really believed what nvidia's release without further details?

 

[watzup_ken]

I think indicative testing by Anandtech shows that the performance bump is very marginal for most games. The only outlier will be Rome Total War, under SLI config @ 2560x1440.

I just updated my driver over last weekend then I saw this.