GeForce 326.19 Beta Performance Analysis – GTX 700 series & Titan (30 Games Benchmarked!)
Benchmarks & Conclusion
Here are our results of thirty-four benchmarks – thirty games and 4 synthetics – compared between GeForce 320.xx family against the last GeForce 326.19 Beta drivers for GeForce Titan as well as for the GTX 770 and the GTX 780.
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.
Although the results are a mixed bag, we noted some solid performance improvements with Nvidia’s new GeForce 326.19 beta in few games. Although we didn’t see much as much improvement in DiRT: Showdown and Tomb Raider: 2013 as Nvidia found, the large performance gains in Sleeping Dogs across-the-board were so surprising that we retested our old benches.
The biggest improvement seems to be with the GK-110 cards, especially with the GTX 780 and to a lesser extent with the Titan. The 326.19 beta GeForce drivers generally performed well although we encountered some instability running Sniper Elite V2 benchmark. Some of the performance losses, as in BioShock: Infinite, were quite minor.
Conclusion:
So far, we would recommend upgrading to the latest GeForce 326.19 driver because there are real advantages, and the pluses that we found outweigh the rare few negatives. The real surprise was the GTX 780 improvement and to a lesser extant, the Titan’s. We’ll be back to expand this testing to two-way SLI this week. We shall also publish an evaluation of a brand new vendor card beginning on Tuesday.
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