Monday, April 7th 2014
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NVIDIA to Launch GeForce 337.50 Beta Later Today
It's now NVIDIA's turn to come up with a 'wonder driver' that introduces large across-the-board performance improvements that could affect performance standings of GeForce GTX GPUs. Bearing the canonical version number GeForce 337.50 Beta, the driver will step up DirectX rendering performance thanks to some fundamental changes in the way the the driver and API handle graphics processing loads for the metal (GPU) to chew on. The difference that makes, according to a leaked NVIDIA press-deck, is that NVIDIA GPUs will offer higher frame-rates than Mantle, while staying in Direct3D mode. Put in numbers, NVIDIA is claiming performance improvements of up to 64% in Total War: Rome II, up to 21% in Star Swarm, and up to 10% in Metro: Last Light.
Sources:
ComputerBase.de, VideoCardz
48 Comments on NVIDIA to Launch GeForce 337.50 Beta Later Today
Most of reviews just simply ignored this fact :|
Now DirectX12 looks like and maybe it is Mantle, but with 1.5 years more time for extra testing. Nvidia will use Mantle then, when it will be with a name that will not make the marketing department to jump out the windows. They could use Mantle today, but they don't. I wouldn't either if I where in their position. I already answered that. Most people are not like us spending hours everyday on line reading specs and charts. They will have a specific budget and they will go and build a PC based on that budget. I have seen many buy a $400 cpu and use the on board graphics to try to play games and then when they see that they can't they go out and buy a GT630 with 4GBs of RAM. Or others buy the strongest graphics card they can, and then go for a 4GHz quad core cpu - that sounds OK doesn't it? Quad core. 4GHz. Or in other words call me 750K for example. Others go out and buy a $300 cpu a $300 gpu and then a 800W NONAME PSU to save $50. Not to mention systems that are pre build from big OEMS or shops. You can read many specs there and laugh and do many faceplams.
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but I doubt that those people are able or ready to spend 600+ on GPU (if they invested in their PC less than 100$ in a year) .... I would love to see some examples, tough >:D. we are talking here about Ferrari fuel consumption... and many people are so stupid to buy Ferrari, but can not afford gas (just as unlikely scenario)... and you say that Ferrari should do something about that damn fuel conpumption - cuz there is MUCH MUCH MORE - of those people than I think....
High comedy. Thanks for the laugh NO.
Mantle is proprietary at this time.
There is no public SDK or documentation available.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, if so, then here's a picture. Also note the bullet point "Selected access only"
Also, your statement doesn't make much sense, but from what I think you're saying; the Steam equivalent to that would be if I went around asking everyone who uses a PC what their favourite game client is (Steam, Origin, UPlay, Battle.net, etc). Most peoples answer will probably be Steam...
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Rome 2 runs great now. Tested some Campaign and Karthago battle. Also gpu-load is now really nice.
He has in signature:
Processor:AMD X4 B50 3,3GhZ (oc)
Videocard:GigaByte GTX 660 oc / 2gb
OS:Win 8.1 (x64)
LE: OK, the guy posted a benchmark.
TW Rome II:
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335.23: 53,8 avg
337.50: 55,4 avg #smoother in battles, gained fps on campaign map
Those slides are deceptive, many are SLI performance and many are compared to 290x not 335-337 , like BF4 one .
But whatever they can get by optimizing the driver, its free .
Stock GTX 670/ i7 920.
335.23
== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 9615
Average FPS: 26.70
Average Unit Count: 3962
Maximum Unit Count: 5538
Average Batches/MS: 492.75
Maximum Batches/MS: 1413.87
Average Batch Count: 18609
Maximum Batch Count: 120381
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337.50
== Results ================================================
Test Duration: 360 Seconds
Total Frames: 14781
Average FPS: 41.06
Average Unit Count: 4269
Maximum Unit Count: 5617
Average Batches/MS: 864.40
Maximum Batches/MS: 2656.92
Average Batch Count: 22857
Maximum Batch Count: 93661
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Not the best benchmark IMO, but the with these drivers the FPS definitely didn't tank as bad and overall it was no doubt faster.