180 series drivers bring massive performance boost to gtx 280. Up to 43%

[Gir92]

Has anyone tested these with an 8 or 9 series card?

any improvements on 8 or 9 series with these drivers?

I'd like to know this as well.

[jasonelmore]

I don't think there is any for Vista yet. There is .44s though

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...?showforum=120

Thanks... Why are'nt these on nvidia's website yet?

[LiquidReactor]

Ill try out these new drivers on my 8800 ultra tommorow. Crysis/ Crysis Warhead, Cod4, RB6lv2 and GRAW2 sound good enough for everyone?

[jasonelmore]

i just installed them and my rivatuner says my card is running at 300Mhz instead of the stock 610mhz.. hmm.. just downloaded evga and no fan control either

[jasonelmore]

I uninstalled RivaTuner and EVGA and redownloaded EVGA and restarted my computer.. then installed EVGA again and everything is working ok.. i'll get back to you on performance increases/decreases

[Caparroz]

And the Intel Nehalem is based on the P6 Architecture from 1995....

Where its roots lie, really doesnt mean a whole lot.

Well, you're comparing apples to oranges. A CPU works is a little bit different from a GPU.

What I meant is: gt200 is basically g80 on steroids. G80 is more than 2 years old. Generally, you don't see ATI or Nvidia squezing massive gains from a very old GPU desing, hence I'm a little skeptical.

[jasonelmore]

the last thing nvidia needs right now is getting more performance using cheap tricks - if they indeed did so and get coungh - one more nail into their coffin that is

I am curios why they say only GTX2xx gets performance boost, isn't the chip the same arch like the 9000 series just more beefed up?
Exclusive gains for G200 only, and way too high numbers - there is something fishy, I am waiting for some in depth analysis

i bet you have a ati card in your computer.. mad because those 8.11's did'nt do ya any good

[VOID WARRANTY]

are these general gains or are they just with i7...if they are im pi#sed

[SoulsCollective]

Seriously, red team/green team is bad, mmkay?

[jasonelmore]

mmmk

[VOID WARRANTY]

the last thing nvidia needs right now is getting more performance using cheap tricks - if they indeed did so and get coungh - one more nail into their coffin that is

I am curios why they say only GTX2xx gets performance boost, isn't the chip the same arch like the 9000 series just more beefed up?
Exclusive gains for G200 only, and way too high numbers - there is something fishy, I am waiting for some in depth analysis

whats the problem ATI already got
caught cheating..

[TheVaLVe]

Its all for profit. Company never cares about you or me or people, all they care is profit. So dont go care ur pc or those company too much.
Ive noticed this before when i migrated from 175.12 to a newer one that introduced the physx on vantage. The GPU perf was perished, i tested this on crysis and devil may cry, and it did cut the GPU perf alot on my 8800gts 512 (on Crysis 5-6FPS and on DMC the rating went down 1 notch). So i never update my driver and stay with 175.12. I even posted about this on a forum and i did say "is this one of the selling tactics for the new GTXxxx?", it got locked instantly without any explanation.

[RAW-Raptor22]

Well, you're comparing apples to oranges. A CPU works is a little bit different from a GPU.

What I meant is: gt200 is basically g80 on steroids. G80 is more than 2 years old. Generally, you don't see ATI or Nvidia squezing massive gains from a very old GPU desing, hence I'm a little skeptical.

Right, nVidia did that most recently with drivers that gave the GTS320 identical performance to the GTS640....

But saying as far as architectures go, we are going to have a G80 style stream processor GPU Arch for a long time, saying a GT280 is like the G80 because of the unified shaders, is like saying the 7950GTX is like the GF2MX because they both have pixel pipelines....

[Caparroz]

Right, nVidia did that most recently with drivers that gave the GTS320 identical performance to the GTS640....

But saying as far as architectures go, we are going to have a G80 style stream processor GPU Arch for a long time, saying a GT280 is like the G80 because of the unified shaders, is like saying the 7950GTX is like the GF2MX because they both have pixel pipelines....

Erm, no...

You're comparing apples to oranges again. Unified shaders is one thing, architecture is another completely different thing. If your logic were right, ATI and Nvidia cards would all be the same, after all, they all have unified shaders.

Just check a gt200 architecture analysis and you'll see why I said "G80 on steroids".

[randomizer]

Thanks... Why are'nt these on nvidia's website yet?

NVIDIA usually doesn't put them up for a long time. Some versions never end up on their site.