nVidia 195.62 Driver Test
Introduction
Today I’ll be testing nVidia’s latest official driver (195.62), and I’ll compare it to my previously installed driver (191.07). The games used will be run at the settings I usually play them at. TrAA will be used where possible with SS denoting super-sampling and MS denoting multi-sampling.
As usual, the text charts are color coded and yellow means 191.07 is faster, while red means 195.62 is faster.
Hardware
- nVidia GeForce GTX285 (1 GB, reference clocks).
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (reference 3 GHz clock).
- 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4×1 GB, dual-channel).
- Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33 chipset, F7 BIOS).
- Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.
- 30” HP LP3065 (maximum resolution 2560×1600).
Software
- Windows XP 32 bit SP3
- nVidia driver 195.62 and 191.07, high quality filtering, all optimizations off, LOD clamp enabled.
- DirectX August 2009.
- All games patched to their latest versions.
Settings
- 16xAF forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver.
- AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.
- Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
- All results show an average framerate.
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In the set-up you are using a gtx 285 with a g-33 chipset motherboard which is only PCIe 1.1, do you think it is holding back the video card preformance much over PCI 2.0. The reason is i have a similar set-up with a gigabyte ga-g33m-s2 motherboard, q9550 and a gtx 275 and im wondering if it would be much or any noteably prefomance gain with a PCIe 2.0 motherboard. The system preformance seams fairly good now? also my son is runing a gtx 260 on a pcie 1.1 MB maybe he could be helped by pcie 2.0 also. Have you done much pcie 1 vs 2 testing? There is realy not much info out there to say if pcie 2.0 is a worth while up-grade for single gtx 200 card. Thanks Lou, your thoughts and reply would be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps this review that is just over a year old will help you:
Big GPU-Shootout; Part III, PCIe 1.0 vs. PCIe 2.0
I tested several video cards including GTX 280 on a Gigabyte P35-DS3P PCIe 1.0 motherboad and then moved them over to a ASUS P5e-Deluxe PCIe 2.0 motherboard and then retested them.
The results may surprise you.
Lou, you’ll see little to no difference with your setup. The bulk of the heavy-lifting in games comes from your GTX275, not from the CPU or PCIe.
I’m on an i5 750 + P55 system now (with the same GTX285), and I got basically no performance gain over my E6850 + G33 system. My GTX285 bottlenecks me by 100% in almost every situation I game at.