NVIDIA ForceWare 257.21 Driver Performance

On June, 15th NVIDIA published new graphics card drivers, ForceWare 257.21 WHQL. This is a very large version number difference from the previous driver which was 197.75 WHQL on May the 10th. A big version change must mean a whole lot of performance improvements right? Well indeed, NVIDIA has provided numerious performance improvements with this driver as well as support for some new technologies.



Today’s testing is simple, we are going to take a handful of current AAA games and test in an apples-to-apples real world gaming scenario and compare the performance of this new driver versus the previous WHQL driver.