NVIDIA ForceWare 257.15 Beta Driver Performance Test
NVIDIA has been released the 257.15 Beta driver, you canclick here to download.
This is the first driver release from the Release 256 family of drivers (versions 256.xx to 259.xx). This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, and 400-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. In addition, this drive also supports the GeForce GTX465 which is not yet released.
According to NVIDA, the 256 family increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. Now Let us to see the power of new driver.
Test Platform：
CPU：Core i7-980X OC 4GHz
Mobo：ASUS Rampage III Extreme（X58）
Memory：Team Group Xtreme DDR3-1600 2GB*3
Graphics：Zotac GeForce GTX480 1536MB
Driver：Forceware 257.15 Beta
OS：Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
We can see, the new driver has more power than ForceWare 197.75 WHQL, the average rate of up to 4.93% raise.
May 26th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
My 3DMark 2003 score on Quadro NVS 135M has been rise from < 4.000 to 7.200. I am using Dell Latitude D630 with T7250 and 2 GB x 2 Mem with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.