GeForce 335.23 Performance Analysis

As part of a regular feature for AlienBabelTech, this evaluation is comparing the performance of 24 benchmarks with the GeForce WHQL 335.23 driver release versus the last GeForce WHQL 334.89 drivers released less than a month previously. We are going to give you the performance results of the extremes of Nvidia’s lineup – the GTX 780 Ti and the GTX 650 Ti results at 1920×1080 and at 2560×1600. This driver performance evaluation will give a natural comparison between the performance improvements since Nvidia’s last WHQL driver set.

We are going to test GeForce 335.23 using our current benchmark suite of 21 games plus 3 synthetic benchmarks. Our testing platform is Windows 7 64-bit, using an Intel Core i7-4770K at 4.00GHz, ECS’ flagship Golden Z87 motherboard, and 16GB of Kingston “Beast” HyperX RAM at 2133MHz. The settings and hardware are identical except for the drivers being tested.

At GTX 760 and above, we test at higher settings and resolutions generally than we test midrange and lower-end cards. The GTX 650 Ti is tested at less demanding settings than the GTX 780 Ti although all of our games are now tested at two resolutions: 2560×1600 and 1920×1080 at 60Hz, and we use DX11/10/10.1 whenever possible with a very strong emphasis on the latest DX11 games.

Let’s get right to the test configuration, the driver release notes, and then the results.