Quels gains escomptés avec les drivers NVIDIA Geforce 522.25 WHQL ?
publié le 18 October 2022 à 08:47 par jonh
Les récents Geforce 522.25 WHQL de NVIDIA promettent des gains dans certains jeux qui exploitent l'API DirectX 12, mais qu'en est-il réellement et la hausse de performances est-elle dépendante de la génération de GPU ?
Réponse avec le dossier NVIDIA GeForce 522.25 Driver Analysis - Gains for all Generations de Techpower Up, qui compare les performances des cartes GTX 1080 Ti, RTX 2080 Ti et RTX 3090 avec les drivers Geforce 517.48 et 522.25.
With the GeForce 522.25 WHQL drivers, NVIDIA claims to have improved the DirectX 12 graphics performance for its entire GeForce RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics card lineup—everything from RTX 3050 to RTX 3090 Ti gets a free performance uplift in games, when using the DirectX 12 API. The company did not put out technical details on how it got this performance uplift, but such sweeping performance improvements, though rare, aren't unheard of. Some people theorized that since this new driver build also removes the hashrate mining limiter, it has something to do with that, but there's no way to know for sure. AMD recently updated its drivers to improve DirectX 11 performance for its RDNA2 and RDNA graphics cards (RX 6000 series and RX 5000 series) by reportedly reworking the software-end of the graphics rendering pipeline. Maybe that innovated NVIDIA to engineer something similar. Although the DirectX 12 API itself is standardized, much of the driver-side optimizations of both NVIDIA and AMD are secret sauce that the two almost never talk about in public, or even to the press.