Tested: Nvidia's Performance-Boosting GeForce 337.50 Driver

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Such driver, much FPS, so speed! Nvidia posts its new GeForce 337.50 Beta drivers - and we put them to the test!

Tested: Nvidia's Performance-Boosting GeForce 337.50 Driver : Read more

 

[Arkive]

Was doge really a necessary way to start the article?

 

[bucknutty]

Does this fix the SLI Profile in TitanFall?

 

[Zepid]

Does this fix the SLI Profile in TitanFall?

This is what I wanna know. TitanFall only uses one of my two 570s in SLi.

 

[ykki]

"4770k is still a very power processor"umm... what?
toms needs proofreading.

 

[Zeroplanetz]

There site says OS 32bits. I'm new to all of this so if I have 8.1 64bit I shouldn't do this beta drive?

 

[mauller07]

time to wait for these to drop and actual performance analysis to roll in since people know nvidia have fixed the AMD performance results, considering the highest settings in Thief using Mantle at 1080p, a stock 290 (not even the x) gets 68 fps avg on beta 14.3.i dont mind them bigging up performance improvements, but the outright lying is such a joke.

 

[coupe]

Nvidia's revolutionary marketing driver. Guaranteed 150% better marketing to combat AMD Mantle hype.

 

[spazoid]

Was doge really a necessary way to start the article?

Maybe not necessary, but very much appreciated.

 

[clonazepam]

Was doge really a necessary way to start the article?

I'm gonna say yeah cuz I learned something new! =)

 

[CaptainTom]

Am I the only one who finds Nvidia's marketing slides hilarious? They make it look like they are massively beating AMD when really all they are showing is that with their "Wonder Drivers" their $700 card beats AMD's $560 card by 12%. Wow what a victory Nvidia! /s

 

[326power]

It would be very interesting to test this drivers with a slower CPU (smth like FX-6300) and different GPUs. It should be very interesting cuz the main point of 337.50 is a reduced CPU overhead, so results should be even more impressive on a system with less powerful CPU.

 

[anthony8989]

This driver is lackluster. Regular driver updates do these things - excluding Starswarm. But who cares about Starswarm?

 

[ykki]

maybe nvdia needs to the test with a celeron proccy to get real results against mantle.

 

[jasonelmore]

Nvidia's revolutionary marketing driver. Guaranteed 150% better marketing to combat AMD Mantle hype.

Nvidia has no reason to respond to Mantle given the recent developments of DirectX 12. Microsoft is gonna do the Mantle bashing for them.

 

[rwinches]

And on my 750 Ti?

 

[lukeeu]

Sorry but choise of benchmarks is misguided. Nvidia claims reduced overhead and SLI improvements. You should test the mantle style driver overhead claim on a SLOOW CPU (i3@2Ghz) and a powerfull GPU. For SLI improvements you should try your i7 with 2 mid range cards.

 

[BulkZerker]

Gotta agree with arkive, the meme is getting overused.

As for this driver, the star swarm improvements are suspect IMHO. That much of a boost sounds like something isn't being rendered.

 

[sjc1017]

So will this drive make any difference to my ageing gt525m core i3 laptop?

 

[toddybody]

I love new drivers...it's that feeling of buying something new, but for free.

 

[BranFlake5]

Was doge really a necessary way to start the article?

Much Yes, Such Necessary, So needed

 

[17seconds]

Gotta check the Guru3d review using a SLI 780 Ti system. The gains in CPU limited situations are even bigger than these results.

 

[sjc1017]

So, do you only get a performance boost if you have a 700 series or later GPU?

 

[mynith]

Mantle was developed to demonstrate how much overhead there really was. Even if the more efficient system didn't turn out to be Mantle, AMD still got what it wanted.

 

[Ilander]

I'm sure NVIDIA had something to say about it, but I'd *REALLY* like to see more 600 series cards in these benchmarks. Or any.