Show us your gains on 337.50 nVidia drivers

[Jeps]

Are these drivers specifically targeting the 700 series & Titans? I don't normally install beta drivers but I might give these a go on my SLI 680s. Hopefully I'll see similar performance gains

 

[Gregster]

SLI seems to get the biggest gains but I put that down to reducing the load on the CPU. I am insisting that everyone try these. I have not found a single issue/problem/bug/error with these and I have/am testing loads of games.

I will give Metro LL a run as well Majnu and I am on W7

 

[8 Pack]

You guys benched em?? I will have a go at the end of the week.

 

[snips86x]

SLI seems to get the biggest gains but I put that down to reducing the load on the CPU. I am insisting that everyone try these. I have not found a single issue/problem/bug/error with these and I have/am testing loads of games.

I will give Metro LL a run as well Majnu and I am on W7

I've only just finished my Parvum S2 build with a custom 7970 backplate. This is not helping me with avoiding an upgrade to a 780/780Ti!!!!!!

 

[Geeman1979]

You guys benched em?? I will have a go at the end of the week.

Tested 3D mark11 and Firestrike and saw no real significant gains although that was only using single card & duel card SLI. Someone needs to test on Tri SLI and above.

 

[Gregster]

I've only just finished my Parvum S2 build with a custom 7970 backplate. This is not helping me with avoiding an upgrade to a 780/780Ti!!!!!!

Mmmmm 780 and a 4K monitor

In truth bud, another 7970 and you would be set for a couple of years IMO. Only proper geeks need/want masses of fps and sadly, I am a proper geek

Here is my Metro 4K results on the new drivers just for reference and will have a play on the old drivers soon. Gonna hurt installing them again but needs must

Spoiler

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Can some of you run single cards please?

It will be interesting to see how much the improvements are.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Trying some benchmarks now.System is a Xeon E3 1220 and a GTX660.

 

[Gregster]

Well did some testing with the CPU at stock and no gains (or losses) for me at 4K. Still, I can see the benefits when I game in 3D though, so good result.

From here and other places, it seems evident that the biggest gains are for 1080P and SLI users.

 

[oweneades]

Can some of you run single cards please?

It will be interesting to see how much the improvements are.

I am going to be running them on my laptop this afternoon. It has a i7 4700HQ / GTX780M combo so might see some gains.

 

[Jakus]

Interesting point, see good old Nvidia is still writing drivers for XP64, obviously game support for DX9 has taken quite a downturn over the last year or so but you want big gains then where possible running in DX9 give them maybe these new drivers ignore some of the DX11 bloat ? because personally the only difference I see is artificially switched off or the odd unsupported eye candy.

MS, XP support apparently ends tomorrow, lets hope Nvidia continue drivers as for me I will run XP64 until something better comes along which will be never And in 5 secs I can boot into win7 anyway.

 

[Gregster]

I have noticed far lower CPU usage when I was doing the 1080P tests, so I am guessing this is why we are seeing gains. I am all out of testing for now and popped the new drivers back on but might have another play with single/SLI cards and different CPU speeds, just to see what the difference is.

I have to say though, I am mightily impressed with these and I will deffo test in 3D to see if there is some gains there as well, as that is quite demanding.

 

[Silent_Scone]

You guys benched em?? I will have a go at the end of the week.

There isn't a lot in it in the 3Dmark stuff. I've yet to try Heaven.

Must admit I've been a bit busy these last few days so haven't found the enthusiasm to benchmark old to new. They do seem to perform very well though, and I'm seeing much better SLi performance in Assassins Creed 4 with three Tis. I'm fairly sure I was a little bit CPU bottlenecked before. So great driver as far as SLi is concerned.


Only done one bench so far which was for Thief. Two way SLi performance, still negative three way scaling.

Spoiler

 

[pgi947]

Going to roll back to my stock bios tonight and may also roll back drivers so I can re bench tr, SD and star swarm.

I'd heard rumblings of 337 bringing down fire strike scores but can't confirm.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Going to roll back to my stock bios tonight and may also roll back drivers so I can re bench tr, SD and star swarm.

I'd heard rumblings of 337 bringing down fire strike scores but can't confirm.

Does for me

 

[Digital X]

As far as I could see, this only or mainly effects the 7xx cards. Would my card benefit at all?

 

[Gregster]

4770k not 3770k Greg

I changed it sorry bud

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I did not have much time so,I tested only three games. All are benchmarked at 1680X1050 using a Xeon E3 1220 and a GTX660 2GB.

Metro:Last Light

I used the in-game benchmark tool. All settings are on very high,with SSAO and PhysX off. I used an average of three runs.

331.82 drivers

Average=37.66FPS
Maximum=79.2FPS
Minimum=6.67FPS



337.50 drivers

Average=39.92FPS
Maximum=77.69FPS
Minimum=10.52FPS

Bioshock Infinite

DX11 Very High Settings.One run.

331.82 drivers

Average=74.22FPS
Maximum=125.99FPS
Minimum=27.83FPS


337.50 drivers

Average=77.43FPS
Maximum=134.07FPS
Minimum=20.84FPS

Tombraider

Adrenaline Ultimate preset with TressFX on. Average of three runs.

331.82 drivers

Average=42FPS
Maximum=53.6FPS
Minimum=31.5FPS


337.50 drivers

Average=42.57FPS
Maximum=56FPS
Minimum=30.6FPS

 

[Kelt]

As far as I could see, this only or mainly effects the 7xx cards. Would my card benefit at all?

Yes. Significant gains for me in Rome 2.

 

[eyetrip]

Greg, you aren't running surround at all any more are you?