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<\/p>\nWe are going to test GeForce 320.00 using our current benchmark suite of 26 games plus\u00a05 synthetic benchmarks, Heaven 4.0<\/em>, Valley 1.0, FireStrike, 3DMark 11 and Vantage. Our testing platform is Windows 7 64-bit, using Intel Core i7-3770K at 4.50GHz, EVGA Z77FTW motherboard and 16GB of Kingston “Beast” HyperX RAM at 2133MHz, and the settings and hardware are identical except for the\u00a0drivers being tested.<\/p>\n The\u00a0GeForce Titan\u00a0and the GTX 680 are tested at higher settings and resolutions generally than we test midrange cards. All of our games are now\u00a0tested at two resolutions: 2560×1600 and 1920×1080 at 60Hz, and we use DX11\/10\/10.1 whenever possible with a very strong\u00a0emphasis on the latest DX11 games including Crysis 3.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s get right to the test configuration, the driver release notes and the tests.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Test Configuration & Driver Release Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Test Configuration<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Test Configuration – Hardware <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Test Configuration – Software<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n The Benchmarks<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lets look at the release notes from\u00a0Nvidia regarding the\u00a0GeForce 320.00 beta\u00a0driver before we head to performance testing.<\/p>\n Please see the GeForce 320.00 Release Highlights<\/a><\/p>\n Release Summary<\/strong> Get optimal game settings and automatically stay up to date\u00a0 with the latest drivers with GeForce Experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n New in GeForce R319 Drivers<\/strong><\/p>\n GeForce GTX 660:<\/span><\/p>\n GeForce\u00a0 GTX 660 SLI:<\/span><\/p>\n Additional\u00a0 Details<\/strong><\/p>\n You can download them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Let’s head to the charts and see the performance comparison in\u00a026 games and in\u00a05 synthetics and check the driver progress with the GTX 680 and the GeForce Titan since we tested last in February:<\/p>\n Nvidia\u2019s Titan arrives to take the performance crown \u2013 36 Performance Benchmarks <\/a> Benchmarks & Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here are our results of thirty-one benchmarks – twenty-six games and 5 synthetics – compared between\u00a0GeForce 320.00\u00a0against the last GeForce 314.22\u00a0WHQL\u00a0drivers for GeForce Titan and for the GTX 680.<\/p>\n Each set of drivers is compared against the other and the higher performance number is in bold<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0If there is a tie, both results are given in bold type.<\/p>\n We noted some serious performance improvements with Nvidia’s new GeForce 320.00 beta in\u00a0some games although we have not yet witnessed the “up to 20%” improvement\u00a0that the release notes mentioned. We still have to test the GTX 690, and we can give you GTX 680 SLI results in our upcoming Part 2 tomorrow.<\/p>\n We have noted\u00a0one issue with the standalone Call of Pripyat<\/em> benchmark exhibiting “snow” although we have not yet tested the game.\u00a0 However,\u00a0so far, we\u00a0find that the latest GeForce driver has brought good performance gains and recommend that you download and upgrade to the very latest beta driver.<\/p>\n Testing Frame rate latencies – “smoothness”<\/strong><\/p>\n ABT is working on new benching methods and testing beyond Fraps.\u00a0 Please bear with us as we transition.<\/p>\n Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n So far, we would recommend upgrading to\u00a0the latest GeForce 320.00\u00a0driver because there are real advantages, and the pluses that we found outweigh the rare few negatives (specifically in Call of Pripyat<\/em> benchmark).\u00a0 We’ll be back to expand this testing to multi-GPU tomorrow as well as to continuing to measure the smoothness of frame rate delivery in the future.\u00a0 We shall also 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.<\/p>\n In the meantime, check ABT’s forum for the best tech discussions anywhere.<\/p>\n Happy gaming!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please join us in our Forums<\/a><\/p>\n Become a Fan on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n For the latest updates from ABT, please join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n Join our Distributed Computing teams<\/p>\n\n
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<\/strong>Release Notes Highlights for GeForce 320.900<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nThis is the GeForce Game\u00a0 Ready<\/em> driver for Dead\u00a0 Island: Riptide<\/a>, Neverwinter<\/a>,\u00a0 and Star Trek.<\/p>\n\n
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