NVIDIA prepping DirectX 12 performance driver and promises huge gains

Posted on Thursday, March 02 2017 @ 14:22 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

I briefly covered yesterday that NVIDIA is working on a Game Ready Driver that promises big DirectX 12 performance gains for its Pascal-based video cards. The statement from NVIDIA reveals you can expect up to 16 percent performance gains on average with the upcoming GeForce 378.74 driver release but it seems I missed that the company provided more performance details in its footer.

Here are the results from a performance comparison made by NVIDIA on an Intel Core i7 5930K system with 16GB DDR4, the GeForce GTX 1080, Windows 10 64-bit and a 3840 x 2160 pixels resolution.

They compared the performance of the GeForce 368.81 driver with the upcoming GeForce 378.74 DX12 performance driver. Pretty impressive if this is accurate, it significantly improves the Pascal DX12 performance:

Ashes of the Singularity, Crazy Preset: 46.5fps to 50.9fps => +9%

Tom Clancy's The Division 1.6, Max Settings + 1x SMAA Ultra: 31.5fps to 32.7fps => +4%

Hitman, High Settings + High SSAO: 50.6fps to 62.1fps => +23%

Rise of the Tomb Raider, Very High + 2x SSAA: 20.5fps to 27.2fps => +33%

Gears of War 4, Ultra Preset: 41.2fps to 45.2fps => +10%

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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