GPU Scheduling gets tested on NVIDIA GPUs

With the GeForce 451.48 WHQL drivers, NVIDIA added support for hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling. This is a new Windows 10 feature that allows a video card to manage its own memory. When it's enabled, it's no longer the Windows 10 operating system that takes care of this job and according to Microsoft this should reduce latency and improve performance.

So does it work? WCCF Tech put it to the test using the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (11GB) and the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER (4GB). It's still a pretty limited test, but the preliminary conclusion seems to be that cards like the GTX 1650 SUPER, which have limited video memory, benefit greatly from the new GPU Scheduling feature. Cards with a lot of memory like the RTX 2080 Ti benefit less, but this may change over time:

With only two cards and two games, I can't draw a hard conclusion across the board but we can see a tale of two different expectations. High-end enthusiast cards with plenty of VRAM to go around seem to not be impacted at this point, that could easily change over time as this is still a very new feature. BUT, if you're a bit more down the rung and your card has less VRAM or is in the entry to mid-range when we see the GTX 1650 SUPER gain 7-8% performance in Gears Tactics and 8-9% in Forza Horizon 4 there's no denying that this update gives graphics card users in that range a welcome push upwards in performance.