GeForce 320.00 Beta Performance Analysis – Part 1 – GTX 680 and Titan
Benchmarks & Conclusion
Here are our results of thirty-one 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 noted some serious performance improvements with Nvidia’s new GeForce 320.00 beta in some games although we have not yet witnessed the “up to 20%” improvement that 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.
We have noted one issue with the standalone Call of Pripyat benchmark exhibiting “snow” although we have not yet tested the game. 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.
Testing Frame rate latencies – “smoothness”
ABT is working on new benching methods and testing beyond Fraps. Please bear with us as we transition.
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 benchmark). 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. 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.
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