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    Nvidia BETA 337.50 drivers released 7th April

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by MrDJ, Apr 7, 2014.

  1. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    MrDJ, Apr 7, 2014
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    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    Much ado about nothing

    Sorry if I'm being a buzzkill, but I don't want people to download this en masse expecting to see miracles because they won't period.
     
    n=1, Apr 7, 2014
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    not at all mate. were used to it with drivers lately :)
    thanks for posting that info.
     
    MrDJ, Apr 7, 2014
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  4. Xaser04

    Xaser04 Notebook Consultant

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    Seen some reasonable gains on my laptop (4700MQ / GTX780M @ 941/5500):

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    Performance seems to be gained where the GPU is not 99% utilised (or in other words where there is a CPU bottleneck).

    Crysis 3 for example showed a gain in absolute terms and also in overall GPU utilisation.

    BF3 showed gains where MSAA wasn't applied but no gain at all when it was.

    Quite happy overall.
     
    Xaser04, Apr 9, 2014
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    Thaenatos Zero Cool

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    Will do some testing when mine arrives on friday. This weekend will be full of teating and even a repasting and ram upgrade (if the paste comes that is)

    Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk
     
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    n=1 YEAH SCIENCE!

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    Maybe I'm reading the chart wrong, but it's <5% gain in average FPS across the board except BF3 and Sleeping Dogs, and only when AA is turned down or off. Min FPS does show significant gains in BF3 and Sleeping Dogs, but that's about it. This is hardly impressive let alone the "Mantle Killer" that it's touted to be.
     
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    seems more like a common driver update with some workarounds implemented to squeeze a couple of fps more rather than killer-of-something imo
     
    4orte_Xto, Apr 9, 2014
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    As I mentioned the main gains (like Mantle) are found where GPU utilisation isn't maxed*. No doubt the biggest benefits will be seen on a more CPU limited setup - sorely tempted to get a GTX770 or similar for my desktop (wife's system) to test whether this is the case (The 760K would bottleneck the 770 quite badly at 1080p in BF3(4) & Crysis 3.

    *Crysis 3 on the old drivers would shown GPU utilisation moving between 85 & 99%. On these new drivers it is much tighter in the 95-99% range.

    In out right performance improvement terms, I would liken these drivers more to the 12.11 performance drivers from AMD. The gains are due to different tweaks but are similar overall.
     
    Xaser04, Apr 10, 2014
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