GeForce 320.00 Beta Performance Analysis – Part 2 – GTX 690 and 680 SLI
Benchmarks & Conclusion
Here are our results of thirty-two benchmarks – twenty-six games and 5 synthetics – compared between GeForce 320.00 against the last GeForce 314.22 WHQL drivers for GeForce Titan and for the GTX 680.
Each set of drivers is compared against the other and the higher performance number is in bold. If there is a tie, both results are given in bold type.
We note some performance improvements with Nvidia’s new GeForce 320.00 beta in maany games although we have not quite witnessed the “up to 20%” improvement that the release notes mentioned.
Since Part 1, we have changed our setting for Hitman: Absolution from using 2xAA to using 8xAA because there appears to be a limit of around 60 fps with our very fastest graphics cards using the lower AA settings.
Issues with GeForce 320.00 drivers
We have noted one major issue with the standalone Call of Pripyat benchmark exhibiting “snow” which is also present in the game at maximum settings so as to make it completely unplayable with the beta driver that works fine with the current GeForce 314.22 WHQLs. Also, we played Trine 2 which also has very bad display issues making it unplayable that are also not found in the GeForce WHQL 314.22 drivers. However, so far, we find that the latest GeForce driver has brought good performance gains and recommend that you download and upgrade to the very latest beta driver unless you are playing these two games.
Conclusion:
So far, we would recommend upgrading to the latest GeForce 320.00 driver because there are real advantages, and the pluses that we found outweigh the rare few negatives (specifically in Call of Pripyat and in Trine 2).
This week, ABT will publish an evaluation of a 16GB kit of Kingston “Beast” 2133MHz HyperX RAM this week that naturally focuses on gaming improvements over 1333MHz and 1666MHz RAM.
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