Any performance boost by nvidia drivers higher than ver301.42 ?
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Any performance boost by nvidia drivers higher than ver301.42 ?
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Send message Joined: 22 Jul 11 Posts: 166 Credit: 138,629,987 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications     
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Hello, did anyone detect a performance increase by cuda wus with drivers are higher than Version 301.42. Any evidence ? Greetings from germany |
 skgiven Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications   |
Not for me, just continuous downclocking to 50MHz! If it's working, leave it that way! FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help |
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Send message Joined: 22 Jul 11 Posts: 166 Credit: 138,629,987 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications
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how boring that nvidia dont improve cuda performance, what a pitty. |
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Send message Joined: 16 Jul 12 Posts: 98 Credit: 386,043,752 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications
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What do you mean they don't improve it? New drivers are always coming out and Cuda 5 came out recently, too. |
 Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications |
I'm sure they did improve something, it just doesn't show up in every application. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
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skgiven Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
There are plenty of changes/improvements in the drivers but just nothing that will improve anyone's performance here; CUDA improvements wont make any difference until they are incorporated into a GPUGrid application. Release Highlights, This is the recommended driver for the launch of Windows 8. It is Microsoft WHQL-certified and will also be available for download via Windows Update. This driver is also recommended for the best experience in the latest top PC games like Borderlands 2 and World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. New in GeForce 306.97 Drivers: Recommended driver for Windows 8 launch. Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 650 Ti GPU. Updates SLI profile for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier. Updates 3D Vision profiles for the following PC games: Check vs. Mate - rated Excellent Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - rated Good Doom 3: BFG Edition - rated Excellent English Country Tune - rated Good F1 2012 - rated Good Iron Brigade - rated Fair Jagged Alliance: Crossfire - rated Good Orcs Must Die 2! - rated Good Planetside 2 - rated Not recommended Prototype 2 - rated Poor Sleeping Dogs - rated Good Spec Ops: The Line - rated Good Tiny Troopers - rated Fair Torchlight 2 - rated Good Transformers: Fall of Cybertron - rated Fair New in Previous GeForce R304 Drivers (versions 304.xx to 306.xx): GPU Support Adds support for GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, and GeForce GTX 650. Legacy Support Notification: GeForce 6-series and GeForce 7-series GPUs will be moved to legacy support after GeForce R304 drivers. GeForce R310 drivers (the next major family of drivers) will not support these products. Adds support for NVIDIA TXAA NVIDIA TXAA is new film-style anti-aliasing technique designed specifically to reduce temporal aliasing (crawling and flickering in motion) through a combination of hardware AA, custom CG film style AA resolve, and a temporal filter. The Secret World is the first game to support TXAA. Read about it on GeForce.com. TXAA is supported on GeForce GTX 600-series Kepler-based GPUs. Learn more about TXAA on GeForce.co.uk. Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400/500/600 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 301.42 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration: GeForce GTX 680: Up to 18% in Batman: Arkham City Up to 15% in Dragon Age II Up to 10% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat Up to 60% in Total War: Shogun 2 (fixes performance issue with latest game patch) GeForce GTX 560: Up to 14% in Batman: Arkham City Up to 5% in Battlefield 3 with SLI Up to 4% in Dragon Age II Up to 8% in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings with SLI Up to 7% in Lost Planet 2 NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles: Alan Wake's American Nightmare – added Borderlands 2 – added Darksiders 2 – added End of Nations - added F1 2011 – updated F1 2012 – added Final Fantasy XIV – updated Nexuiz - added Orcs Must Die! 2 – added PlanetSide 2 - updated Saints Row: The Third – updated Shogun 2: Total War – updated Sleeping Dogs – updated from latest beta Spec Ops: The Line - added The Secret World - updated Torchlight II - added Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier - added Tornado Force - added Tribes: Ascend – updated NVIDIA 3D Vision – Adds or updates the following 3D Vision profiles: Alan Wake's American Nightmare – rated Not Recommended A New Dawn – rated Fair All Zombies Must Die! Scorepocalypse – rated Good ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead – rated Fair Bang Bang Racing – rated Excellent Borderlands 2 – updated profile with new convergence settings Brave – rated 3D Vision Ready Devil May Cry 4- rated Fair Depth Hunter – updated rating to 3D Vision Ready Dishonored – rated Good End of Nations – rated Good London 2012 The Official Video Game – rated Fair Mad Doc Jr.'s Doom Rails – rated Excellent Mass Effect 3 – updated in-game compatibility message and profile to be more compatible with community 3D mods Max Payne 3 – updated rating to Excellent and updated in-game compatibility message to inform users to use DirectX 11, disable MSAA and use SSA0. Raiderz – rated Fair Roller Coaster Rampage – rated 3D Vision Ready SCANIA Truck Driving Simulator – rated Fair Street Fighter X Tekken – rated 3D Vision Ready Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends – rated Good Tiger Woods PGA 12: The Masters – rated Good Tribes: Ascend – rated Fair The Secret World – rated Good The Walking Dead – rating Good World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria – rated Excellent Other Profile Updates Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Diablo III Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for L.A. Noire Added NVIDIA Control Panel antialiasing support for Rayman Origins Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support for Star Wars: The Old Republic Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support Counter-strike: Global Offensive Added NVIDIA Control Panel ambient occlusion support MechWarrior Online Disabled FXAA for several Windows programs like Media Player and Movie Maker. NVIDIA Surround Surround settings now persisted after new driver overinstall. NVIDIA CUDA Includes support for applications built using CUDA 5 Preview or earlier version of the CUDA Toolkit. More information at http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit Key Fixes Fixes an intermittent vsync stuttering issue with GeForce GTX 600-series GPUs. Fixes an issue where some manufacturer's factory overclocked cards default to and run at lower clocks. Fixes a performance issue in Total War: Shogun 2 with the latest game patch. Additional Details Installs PhysX System Software v9.12.0604. Installs HD Audio v1.3.18.0. Supports DisplayPort 1.2 for GeForce GTX 600 series GPUs. Supports multiple languages and APIs for GPU computing: CUDA C, CUDA C++, CUDA Fortran, OpenCL, DirectCompute, and Microsoft C++ AMP. Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel and AMD motherboards. Everyone is free to trawl through the 69pages of release notes in pdf format for more details, http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/306.97/306.97-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf PS. With screen saver set to 'none' on XP my GTX470 is no longer downclocking. FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help |
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Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
CUDA improvements wont make any difference until they are incorporated into a GPUGrid application. This is true for any new features. However, GPU-Grid uses some libraries provided by nVidia. These could lead to performance changes depending on driver versions - depending on what nVidia did. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
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skgiven Send message Joined: 23 Apr 09 Posts: 3968 Credit: 1,995,359,260 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
I don't recall ever experiencing this. I've checked performance numerous times, subsequent to a driver update, but I've only ever seen an increase in stability and minor reduction in performance if any change, as well as problems (especially with downclocking and app crashing). I know there are some libraries that get released prior to an announced cuda update that could in theory improve some specific performance, but I thought the app generally had to be recompiled to take advantage of these. FAQ's HOW TO: - Opt out of Beta Tests - Ask for Help |
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Send message Joined: 17 Aug 08 Posts: 2705 Credit: 1,311,122,549 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications |
Ahh.. I mixed this up with CUDA updates. Jumping from one version to another nVidia might update the libraries. In this case a driver update is required to make it work, but is not actually the reason for the performance difference. It's the stuff which has to be compiled into the app. MrS Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002 |
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