Dox Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Found an interesting article over at BenchmarkReviews The article compares performance between the last whql driver for 6/7/8/9 series gpus 175.16 vs current whql 175.19. The results will surprise you. SOURCE Do you see the same performance difference? Report in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Nice find, Dox. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLoweCSL Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 I ran 3DMark06 on both drivers and the difference was only about 15 points or so on my SLI system. I am currently playing through Mass Effect and didn't notice any appreciable frame rate differences between the two drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F3nNec Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 (edited) Nice find, Dox. Thanks. same kthx! :) with mai exp. i still prefer non WHQL driverz, thei rox Edited July 2, 2008 by F3nNec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 Test SystemOperating System: Windows XP Professional SP-3 (optimized to 16 processes at idle) They might have disabled the NVIDIA driver helper sericve :) responsible for keeping clock speed and color settings intact. Also the benchmark procedure (as stated in their article) is questionable in my opinion. To compare results reliably you need to re-image the OS (no VGA driver should be installed!) to ensure the exact same environment. If done properly it only takes 1 minute for the actual image restoration (assuming XP). Even with VISTA (defaults at 20GB after fresh install) it should take only 4 or 5 minutes. Everything else can give unexpected results. It's actually less time consuming than uninstalling the driver, reboot to safe mode, ran all the driver cleaners (as they all differ in quality), reboot, install the new driver and reboot again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badboyromio Posted July 3, 2008 Report Share Posted July 3, 2008 Yes actually. The 175.19 brings my fps down much worse than the 175.16. I am currently using the 175.16 for my 8600m gt 512 ddr2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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