GeForce 258.96 Performance Analysis – Dragon Platform
Benchmarks & Conclusion
Here are our results of 21 benchmarks – 20 games and one synthetic – compared between GeForce 257.21 versus 258.96. As an added bonus, Vantage scored 20702 with GeForce 257.21 and 20967 with the latest, 258.96 driver
“Wins” are in bold; if there is a tie, both results will be in bold type. Here is GTX 480 benched with GeForce 257.21 vs 258.96:
Again we see more good reason to upgrade from GeForce 257.21 to 258.96. There are many games that benefit from the newer drivers. We do see many of the improvements promised in the driver release notes actually showing up in some of the games that we tested.
We will be back later this week to compare performance of Catalyst 10-7 versus 10-6 and perhaps we can also cover the new GeForce WHQLs when they are released (probably) next month. We are also currently testing the limits of HD 5870 architecture and we will be comparing dual versus quad core CPUs in PC gaming also. Happy gaming!
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k this is a complete joke… Ur rig consists of a 550be… Wow talk about a bottleneck… Dirt 2 for example… I get 80fps in benchmark with 8xAA at 1920×1080… Horrible… No wonder the 5870 testing actually comes close… I7 vs phenom x2… Like sending a wrinkled up old lady to play in the NFL
Nonsense. I am not comparing HD 5870 to GTX 480 😛
And please educate yourself on Dual- vs. Quad-core:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=19601
Phenom II 550 X2 at 3.8 GHz is not a bottleneck for any of the games that I tested – and certainly not for a single GTX 480. Of these benches, only World-in-Conflict really benefits practically from a Quad-core over a Dual-core. These current benches will give you the *relative* performance of the new driver compared to the last set. I have also had a lot of requests to test GTX 480 on the Dragon Platform; not everyone needs to nor wants to run GTX 480 with Core i7.
You also appear to have no clue about the Phenom II in gaming. When it is highly overclocked, it trades blows in many cases with my Core i7-920 at the same 3.80 GHz. Phenom II is certainly on a par with Intel’s Penryn CPUs.
Watch for my upcoming series of articles that will compare Phenom II X2 vs. X4 vs Core i7 – all at 2.6 GHz, 3.2 GHz and at 3.8 GHz. The tests are run with GTX 480 and HD 5870 and 5870 CrossFire.
In the meantime, perhaps these articles will help you:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=2854
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=2852
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=4090
The last one uses HD 4870 TriFire:
http://alienbabeltech.com/abt//viewtopic.php?t=19777