Monday, April 7th 2014
NVIDIA Releases GeForce 337.50 Performance-Focused Graphis Driver
NVIDIA has now made available the GeForce 337.50, a new, beta-tagged graphics driver that is claimed to deliver 'performance gains of up to 71% in DirectX 11 games'. This release boosts both single-GPU and SLI performance while also including tweaks to reduce game load time, new and updated SLI profiles, plus 3D Vision optimizations.
The GeForce 337.50 beta supports GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700 Series cards and comes bundled with GeForce Experience 2.0 which brings ShadowPlay desktop capture, advanced Twitch streaming controls, ShadowPlay for notebooks, and SHIELD GameStream support for notebooks.
Download: Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista (32-bit) / Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista (64-bit) / Windows XP (32-bit) / Windows XP (64-bit)
New in GeForce 337.50 Beta drivers
Performance - Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are some examples of measured gains versus the previous 335.23 WHQL driver:
GeForce GTX 700 Series (Single GPU):
The GeForce 337.50 beta supports GeForce 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 and 700 Series cards and comes bundled with GeForce Experience 2.0 which brings ShadowPlay desktop capture, advanced Twitch streaming controls, ShadowPlay for notebooks, and SHIELD GameStream support for notebooks.
Download: Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista (32-bit) / Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista (64-bit) / Windows XP (32-bit) / Windows XP (64-bit)
Performance - Introduces key DirectX optimizations which result in reduced game-loading times and significant performance increases across a wide variety of games. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration. Here are some examples of measured gains versus the previous 335.23 WHQL driver:
GeForce GTX 700 Series (Single GPU):
- Up to 64% in Total War: Rome II
- Up to 25% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Up to 23% in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 21% in Star Swarm
- Up to 15% in Batman: Arkham Origins
- Up to 10% in Metro: Last Light
- Up to 8% in Hitman Absolution
- Up to 7% in Sniper Elite V2
- Up to 6% in Tomb Raider
- Up to 6% in F1 2013
- Up to 71% in Total War: Rome II
- Up to 53% in Sniper Elite V2
- Up to 45% in Aliens vs. Predator
- Up to 31% in Sleeping Dogs
- Up to 20% in CoD: Black Ops 2
- Up to 10% in Hitman Absolution
- Up to 9% in F1 2013
- Up to 7% in Far Cry 3
- Up to 6% in Metro: Last Light
- Up to 6% in Batman: Arkham Origins
- Total War: Rome II - added profile
- War Thunder - added profile
- Watch Dogs - updated profile
- Diablo III - updated profile
- Supports GeForce ShadowPlay technology
- Supports GeForce ShadowPlay Twitch Streaming
- Supports NVIDIA GameStream technology
- Supports new "3D Compatibility Mode" for 3D Vision that enables us to improve the 3D experience for many key DirectX 10 and 11 games.
- Path of Exile - rated "Good"
- KickBeat - rating now "Excellent"
- Assassin's Creed Liberation - previously "Not Recommended", now rated as "Excellent"
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army - previously "Good", now rated as "Excellent"
- Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 - previously "Good", now rated as "Excellent"
- Strike Suit Zero - previously "Not Recommended", now rated as "Good"
- Watchdogs - rated as "Good"
48 Comments on NVIDIA Releases GeForce 337.50 Performance-Focused Graphis Driver
If this all was true, kudos to nvidia, they can optimize their cards only with driver, not like AMD need new API...
www.anandtech.com/show/7926/nvidia-releases-33750-beta-driver-offers-significant-performance-improvements
NVidia/Amd always spout extra hype for product and driver releases. But glad for Amd pushing Mantle out bc its forced Nvidia to push further improvements.
Most games are GPU limited, so I'd doubt you'd see massive framerate increases. G3D tested 780 Ti SLIwhich should show that CPU limitation before that of GPU.
Seems fairly obvious from the results, that games that aren't utilizing the CPU to any great extent.
As an example, Bioshock Infinite is obviously not CPU limited. Crysis 3 on the other hand, most definitely is.
As for whether the actual gains tally with the press slide kit, is this a something that happens with any vendor?
Any gains are welcome. I'll hold out on installing them. Need to see more reviews on these and see what feedback they get.
I suspect that 0.01 increase from R331-R337 would have been smaller if R335 was tested. I also wouldn't call it a Dramatic Improvement.
The beauty is these drivers reduce CPU overhead across multiple games, rather than specific games running a vendor locked API.
Obviously if you are GPU bound, then they aren't going to work miracles, no different from Mantle.
This is marketing at its best (or worst, depending on how you want to look at it).
Of course the Y-axis doesn't start at zero. Also consider that the difference in MSRP between the cards is 27%, although the actual difference in price is probably lower for US buyers.
nVidia is great at marketing by the way
BTW, I haven't seen many site test reviews set out incorporating DX11 v Mantle v FW335 v FW337 as per the slide, butComputerBase gave it a shot as well as a Win 7 vs Win 8.1 comparison
Yeah as long as its free. I'll download the driver and install on my windows gaming machine. LOL