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**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

Earlier, I installed the latest Beta drivers, and lost Nvidia control panel - I've rolled back, done an complete uninstall, and reinstall of the old release driver, and its all ok.

Is it 100% there in the beta drivers?

There are new additions in the control panel for compiled shader optimisations and a change to the way it carries over old settings from your previous drivers (I think) so certain configs might require you to install 335.xx then 337.xx over the top if your having issues. Later versions shouldn't require it but I think they might have pushed these to get them out a bit.
 
Seems to be all 700 series is "read me", not sure what the full .pdf says.


GeForce GTX 700 Series (Single GPU):
Up to 64% in Total War: Rome II
Up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Up to 23% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 21% in Star Swarm
Up to 15% in Batman: Arkham Origins
Up to 10% in Metro: Last Light
Up to 8% in Hitman Absolution
Up to 7% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 6% in Tomb Raider
Up to 6% in F1 2013


GeForce GTX 700 Series (SLI):
Up to 71% in Total War: Rome II
Up to 53% in Sniper Elite V2
Up to 45% in Aliens vs. Predator
Up to 31% in Sleeping Dogs
Up to 20% in CoD: Black Ops 2
Up to 10% in Hitman Absolution
Up to 9% in F1 2013
Up to 7% in Far Cry 3
Up to 6% in Metro: Last Light
Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham Origins
 
Thanks, 295 X2 are smoother and faster, nothing to add really :)

My AMD setup will smack a couple of 295s in quadfire out the park but it can not beat the 780ti's

Fortunately there are not many quad sli 780ti's setups and that 3gb VRAM is an even bigger handicap than the 4gb on the 290Xs for 4K.
 
Can't believe how much faster the 780ti's in SLI are to 295x2. I thought AMD would try harder. Nvidia top dog again:D

That's not strictly correct

@4K 2 780ti's are better than 2 290Xs

@4K 4 290Xs are better than 4 780ti's as the latter runout of VRAM when maxing games.
 
6 gb 780tis?

Or Titan Blacks swing the argument back in NVidia's favour but that is not what people have been comparing in the posts above.

They have been comparing 3gb 780ti's to 4gb 290Xs

I don't know what the price of a 6gb 780ti will be but if I had to guess I would say £650 which also needs to be taken into consideration.
 
Be nice to see a 512bit 4-6GB Nvidia, does 6 go into 512 VRam Module wise?

Given the choice I think I would rather go the NVidia route with the setup found on the 780ti's and Titan Blacks - 384bit bus plus very good memory chips that can pull some really big overclocks. A 512bit bus is good but when it is saddled with memory that runs @1250mhz at default that is not good.
 
Will the 384 bit bus be able to take advantage of 6GB in 2 card set ups?

Many slate Nvidia for weaker Bus esp when they dropped to 256bit, the 280 and 285 had 512bit but it was DDR3 so dual not quad pumped like GDDR5 so matters more to GDDR3.

I think the 512bit bus was shown in a review sites prediction to add a good chunk of bandwidth to current Nvidia cards by just changing the bus width.
 
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