nVIDIA drivers shootout - 30 version tested!

Hello guys!

Long time no... article posted. Now I present you a driver shootout, a test of 30 nVIDIA drivers, on a Dell Inspiron 1520 configuration, an iMAC and an Acer Aspire 6920G. First part, the one who handles the Windows XP drivers testing is over and published. The chart is composed in 2 parts, one with the results (points for 3DMarks and fps for Crysis games) and one with the information about it. When was launched, if it has WHQL, PhysX and PhysX driver included, CUDA support, GPGPU folding client, Issues, New Features, Original Products supported (if you have a desktop board and you want to keep the WHQL status active)... and a whole article about what does ForceWare means.

The article is in romanian, but the datas are in english, so everyone could understand (if there are enough request, I will translate it all in english). Anyway, have a good time on my website and be sure to visit it from time to time, the charts get updated every time a new driver will be released (and we will also include older models too).

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P.S. Please give me your feedback, we want to make it perfect for you. And you could use the RSS feeds to get the updates and stay in touch.

Yours...

P.P.S. Should I post this in the Dell section aswell? Because, maybe they don't use it...

 

Awesome information...will make a great sticky!

 

Thanks alot CQ + rep

 

Great to hear that, now I am talking with some officials from nVIDIA to provide me the proper drivers for Windows 7, so we will start from ground 0 with it. And, of course, like I've said, we will continue updating it, with the new versions and older ones, so we could soon see a full ForceWare database.

P.S. It is for every notebook arround, including iMACs... so maybe this thread should be moved?

P.P.S. Feedback, please, we are going to improve it every day!

 

TehSuigi... where are you man?

 

Sorry, but you can't post links in your posts to websites or websites you are affiliated with. Those types of links are restricted to the signature area only. Also, you can't tell people to click on your signature either (you haven't done this, but that is not a way to get around the ban on direct linking - there is no way to do that).

I removed the link - you can translate the article and post the full text here, but no linking. Thank you.

 

I will not gonna do that, I'm sorry. I invested a lot of time in this article (and not just me, all three of us) and we wrote it for our website. We thought it would be useful for NBR users, but... rules are rules.

P.S. I will translate it today. But still, for my website. It's not fair to post it here. Happy New Year!

 

The article is now in english.

 

I was away on a trip for a while, and missed this completely.
Good work, though!

 

The shootout was updated, now it contains not only the Windows XP and Windows VISTA x86 version but the 185.20 driver too. Check it out...

 

Part 3 of the test is ready, now you can see the results for Windows VISTA SP1 x64 drivers.

 

just pasted the results into excel.
benchmarks for vista 32 are way higher than vista 64 and xp32 :-o
top 5 fastest drivers for vista 32 are all above 180. vista 64 and xp fastest are in the 170s. nvidia are writing good stuff for vista 32?
why so many stories about xp still fastest for games?
maybe i should abandon my xp32 for games (crysis warhead at the mo) and load up vista 32?

 

Because their lack of knowledge. The results are different because the configurations used for testing are also different, I've told you not to skip the introduction and the part with the testing procedure.

 

i did look through several times for the basis of the figures. as they mention 3 laptops i assume that results were averages. if the tests were done under conditions how can they (we) compare the results? i REALLY did want to know the relative speeds between the 3 os's.
edit: maybe i can take the fastest of the drivers (for crysis warhead) for each os and do my own test
oops, just read AGAIN and you are right, different lappies and different os's, not the way to go imho.

 

The speed between the OSes will be easy to compare after we finish the next article, who is focused on that.

The article compares the performance between drivers version. Not between configurations, not between OSes... between drivers versions. Each table line compares only with the other lines from the same table. Easy as it looks.

 

done some googling, and seems that even after 9 years of m$ 'development', xp is still the fastest, as i thought. people are being amazed that windows 7 'seems' to be almost as fast as xp so maybe some hope for a new champ if proper drivers get written. after 3 years on vista 64 i am still waiting for 64 bit progs to take advantage of the hardware. it still would be nice to see direct comparison, like for like, but fastest driver for specific os is still valid exercise.

 

Thank You CQSTELUSH for posting your findings..

I for one am looking forward to your windows 7 findings..

I prefer 185.20 drivers overall they run great on my machine.

 

Me too, even if it's kinda buggy when using it with nVIDIA's own overclocking tool, nTune.