**THE NVIDIA DRIVERS THREAD**

[Twirlywoos]

Rather than compiling shaders at runtime, saves them to disk to reduce CPU overhead.

Is that the new reducing tiling thing? Something to do with a new way of caching?

 

[4737Joker]

I see math is not your strong point

1.15 to 1.18 is roughly 2%, I was pointing out the difference in the ti performance on that particular graph. Chill my friend

Need to install some games on my work pc and test this 760 out

 

[Geeman1979]

So the official drivers available from the Nvidia site tonight?

 

[Stanners]

1.15 to 1.18 is roughly 2%, I was pointing out the difference in the ti performance on that particular graph. Chill my friend

Need to install some games on my work pc and test this 760 out

Ahh sorry I see now, I thought you meant to mantle for some reason

 

[LegendaryDread]

First impressions: Got a pretty hefty boost in Metro Last Light. My minimum frames during the final firefight have nearly doubled. BF4 test range has increased by about 15~20%.

 

[Twirlywoos]

Right then this has affected my GPU Clock and Memory speeds.

MSI AB has all the same settings but GPUZ is now reading GPU Clock as: 1202 and Memory 1502.

Previously it was 1282 and 1877Mhz.

I need to tinker with the overclocks again.

Anyone getting the same?

 

[atomic7431]

First impressions: Got a pretty hefty boost in Metro Last Light. My minimum frames during the final firefight have nearly doubled. BF4 test range has increased by about 15~20%.

This is what i want to here happy days

 

[johny dolan]

I ran tomb raider last night so I could check out these noew drivers when they came out today.

last night with old drivers I got
min 83.7
max 144
avg 110

today with these new drivers

min 84
max 144
avg 111

 

[darael]

Nothing on http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-uk

 

[johny dolan]

My firestrike score gone down from 14844 to 11000

 

[Sycho]

Will try Rome 2 Total War with these and report back.

Got 67fps average on Ultra everything turned max about halfway through benchmark....will do a full later maybe...before it was about 35-40 though that was on launch.

 

[Calin Banc]

Do you think there could be any gains on BF4? Because this game was not mentioned.

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidi...available-first-official-benchmarks-unveiled/

It's a miracle!

 

[Gregster]

Well done some testing and it has confirmed what I thought. These drivers will help if you are CPU bottlenecked. I haven't seen any improvements as such at 4K.

Tomb Raider before 46 58 68
Tomb Raider after 44 60 70

Hitman before 21 30 43
Hitman after 23 30 44

Batman AO before 43 55 89
Batman AO after 47 55 83

Dirt Showdown before 59 74
Dirt Showdown after 60 75

Grid 2 before 68 80 93
Grid 2 after 66 81 95

Thief before 29 47 68
Thief after 30 48 68

That is my testing so far and I also tested Sniper Elite V2 and again, a fraction faster. All good and I know my system is running well

 

[Twirlywoos]

SEV2

Just a small boost (3fps) to minimum frame rates, but this is what I expected tbh. The GPU Load previous was around 96% percent anyway with SLI.

Metro Last Light

Before (2 runs):

Average Framerate: 66.00
Max. Framerate: 143.39
Min. Framerate: 9.68

Now:

Average Framerate: 69.50
Max. Framerate: 149.90
Min. Framerate: 12.28

GPU Usage still hovered around 65-75% for both GPUs

Hitman Absolution

Before:

Min FPS: 56.000000
Max FPS: 82.000000
Average FPS: 66.129387

Now:

Min FPS: 60.000000
Max FPS: 98.000000
Average FPS: 72.662094

Sleeping Dogs

Before:

Average value="102.371955872"/>
<Max value="142.453598022"/>
<Min value="61.498031616"/>

After:

<Average value="105.113288879"/>
<Max value="150.262313843"/>
<Min value="56.861450195"/>

Valley

Before: 95.4
Now: 94.7


Overall some small gains, but SEV2 was far fetched. But I guess we need to read the official release notes to see what exactly we should have expected. Hardly a miracle and Mantle still is King.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Meh

 

[4737Joker]

We need someone with a bottlenecked system to test it, unless you fancy underclocking greg?

 

[shankly1985]

Am not seeing theses huge improvements

 

[Geeman1979]

Some of us don't need them.

 

[shankly1985]

But they was show cased on a high end cpu and 780ti?

 

[Gregster]

Some of us don't need them.

This.

It seems like Mantle and relieves bottlenecks. CPU usage is well down from what it was, which is a very good thing.