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    nVidia 320.00 Beta Drivers Out

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kent1146, Apr 23, 2013.

  1. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    nVidia 320.00 Beta Drivers are out:
    Nvidia GeForce 320.00 Beta Drivers Increases Performance Up to 20 Percent | Maximum PC

    nVidia claims performance boosts on lots of titles, using an nVidia GeForce 660 as its baseline.
    • Up to 20 percent in Dirt: Showdown
    • Up to 18 percent in Tomb Raider
    • Up to 8 percent in StarCraft II
    • Up to 6 percent in Sniper Elite V2
    • Up to 6 percent in Metro 2033
    • Up to 6 percent in Far Cry 3
    • Up to 6 percent in Deus Ex: Human Revolution
    • Up to 5 percent in F1 2012

    Informally, I ran 3dMark11 on my 2x GeForce 650M SLI setup (stock speeds), and saw a jump from about 3650 --> 3744. Although I would say that is small enough to be within a margin of error.

    In any case, check it out if you like playing with new nVidia drivers.
     
    kent1146, Apr 23, 2013
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    orangedrink888 Notebook Geek

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    Very nice. Thanks! I'll have to try this tonight to see if it will install successfully on a 750m.
     
    orangedrink888, Apr 23, 2013
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    Character Zero Notebook Evangelist

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    750m still not listed but it seems they recently added the 740m.
     
    Character Zero, Apr 23, 2013
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    Ahhh you are right, I just saw that. Hope to see it on the next beta release :)
     
    orangedrink888, Apr 23, 2013
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    juliant, Apr 23, 2013
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    Kukri Notebook Consultant

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    +18% in Tomb Raider huh? Oh buddy, I need to check this out, lol. As I've said before, that game is very poorly optimized, at least for Nvidia it seems.

    ***EDIT***

    I can confirm that I see very little, if any, improvement in Tomb Raider, lol.
     
    Kukri, Apr 23, 2013
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    thanks, my core went up from 3713 to 3752, its not much but its better
     
    DjSweetBazz, Apr 24, 2013
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  8. Character Zero

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    So they added the 750M to the pulldown to select a card for drivers, but no drivers (beta or otherwise) yet. But its a good sign they could be coming soon.
     
    Character Zero, May 2, 2013
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