NVIDIA GeForce 301.24 beta driver promises big performance gains

NVIDIA published GeForce 301.24, a new beta driver that promises big performance gains for GeForce 400 and 500 series graphics cards. You can download the driver over here. On the company's blog, NVIDIA says GeForce users can expect performance gains of up to 23 percent in specific cases and in specific games. There are no performance boosts for GeForce GTX 680 users, they already got the performance improvements as part of the 301.10 driver.

New in R300 Drivers:

New GPU Support – Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 680, the fastest, most efficient GPU ever built. Explore GeForce GTX 680 and its new SMX architecture on GeForce.com.

Performance Boost – Increases performance for GeForce 400 Series and 500 Series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 296.10 WHQL-certified drivers. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 570/580:

Up to 23% in Just Cause 2 with SLI

Up to 21% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Up to 17% in StarCraft II with SLI

Up to 14% in Far Cry 2 with SLI

Up to 9% in Bulletstorm

Up to 7% in Civilization V

Up to 6% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI

Up to 6% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI

Up to 5% in Metro 2033 with SLI

Up to 5% in Total War: Shogun 2

GeForce GTX 560/560 Ti:

Up to 20% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Up to 15% in Just Cause 2 with SLI

Up to 13% in Far Cry 2 with SLI

Up to 12% in Bulletstorm

Up to 11% in Civilization V

Up to 10% in StarCraft II with SLI

Up to 9% in Batman: Arkham City

Up to 4% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution with SLI

Up to 4% in Dragon Age 2 with SLI

Up to 4% in Metro 2033 with SLI

Up to 4% in Total War: Shogun 2

NVIDIA FXAA Technology – shader-based anti-aliasing technology available from the NVIDIA Control Panel that enables ultra-fast anti-aliasing in hundreds of PC games. FXAA delivers similar quality to 4x multi-sample antialiasing (MSAA) but is up to 60% faster, enabling substantially higher performance in games. FXAA is supported on all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs. Note: This feature is disabled for games that already have built-in support for FXAA. Visit GeForce.com to learn more.

NVIDIA SLI Technology – Adds or updates the following SLI profiles:

Alan Wake

Call of Juarez: The Cartel

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link

Left 4 Dead

Orcs Must Die!

Portal 2

Risen 2: Dark Waters

The Darkness II