41.09 USERS - Performance set to 'Aggressive' - is this the same as an overclock?

[jakobkraft]

Although my vid. card clock speeds don't change, I saw not only a 60-80 point increase in 3dMark (which I know means nothing) but also a visibly perceptible performance increase in certain games, like Sacrifice-but in a strange way, like the frames didn't go up at all but it looked as if they had, smoother, etc.

I don't necessarily require an explanation but was just curious if any one else tried the 'Aggressive' performance mode in the Nvidia 41.09 drivers and what, if any, results did they get.....

 

[CraigRT]

hm, that's pretty strange. you know, i have no idea... i would try 2 more runs, one with the aggressive on still, and then another not on aggressive.. see what happens. sometimes the results change by 60-80 points each time for no traceable reason.

 

[jakobkraft]

I did try several test runs, and 'Aggressive' mode tests higher every time - its freaky, what does that mode do, if not overclock?

 

[erikiksaz]

Maybe they down the detail levels of the textures.

 

[MrCraphead]

Interesting, I never noticed that before. I too would like to know what exactly it does.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: erikiksaz
Maybe they down the detail levels of the textures.

Yeah, and might use bilinear filtering instead of trilinear/anistropic. if you poke around the drivers you can find a bunch of options that can be changed to trade performance vs. quality.

 

[PCMarine]

Meh, I have it on aggressive anyway...Might as well eh?

 

[BFG10K]

The aggressive setting is not an overclock, it simply forces lower quality graphics options to get higher performance.