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[Driver Comparison] Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 – 266.58, 263.09, 262.99 Compared

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Copenhagen69

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At the risk of getting shot,haha ... They have posted an Nvidia driver comparison as well, so I figured I would share it. I really am enjoying the AMD conversation so I figured why not get an nvidia one going as well :thumbsup:

Hopefully there will be as much good info and talking here as the AMD thread :thumbsup:
 
Good article, this about sums it up........

"Overall, we were glad to see that the new drivers were a step in the right direction with performance increases in almost everything that we tested. Nvidia did a great job with these drivers and made nice improvements from the older WHQL drivers"
 
happy medium said:
Good article, this about sums it up........

"Overall, we were glad to see that the new drivers were a step in the right direction with performance increases in almost everything that we tested. Nvidia did a great job with these drivers and made nice improvements from the older WHQL drivers"
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:thumbsup: Yeah it's great news, I'm a few days away from finally getting my machine set up.

I do find this interesting:

'Up to 8% in Unigine Heaven v2.1 (SLI 1920×1200 4xAA/16xAF)', I wish I would come across a study to see if benchmark performance can be directly correlated to sales. Probably not, I guess.
 
I bet benchmarks directly correlate with GPU sales ...Although i do not have any stats to back me up. I am just going off of how everyone is so interested in benchmarks for every card.
 
happy medium said:
Good article, this about sums it up........

"Overall, we were glad to see that the new drivers were a step in the right direction with performance increases in almost everything that we tested. Nvidia did a great job with these drivers and made nice improvements from the older WHQL drivers"
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yes that does do a good job ... this thread seems to not be at thought provoking as the other driver comparison one though haha ... lots of good conversation in that one.
 
Copenhagen69 said:
yes that does do a good job ... this thread seems to not be at thought provoking as the other driver comparison one though haha ... lots of good conversation in that one.
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Well the other article was crap. 2 games? And then it devolved into AMD vs NV and who has faster cards.
This article manages nine games, somehow.

The presentation in both instances is utterly dire though. I can't even be bothered to look at the content because it takes so much work.
 
Lonyo said:
Well the other article was crap. 2 games? And then it devolved into AMD vs NV and who has faster cards.
This article manages nine games, somehow.

The presentation in both instances is utterly dire though. I can't even be bothered to look at the content because it takes so much work.
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I don't know why the graphs are so small. Yeah, they managed more than 3x as many games.
 
Lonyo said:
Well the other article was crap. 2 games? And then it devolved into AMD vs NV and who has faster cards.
This article manages nine games, somehow.

The presentation in both instances is utterly dire though. I can't even be bothered to look at the content because it takes so much work.
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lol, clicking the images is too much work? Would you have rather had them just big big images and have lots of scrolling to do? 😕
 
They don't even test the two games they did for the AMD article. That site is starting to look like a joke.

We were however, just a little surprised that unlisted games and benchmarks did not see much of an improvement, but what can you do? As we said already, if they aren’t listed, don’t expect an improvement and we suppose that makes sense. Nvidia never said they tweaked the other games and benchmarks, so we cannot hold that against them.
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ROFL. Nice conclusion...

With only seeing improvement in one out of the five tests, we are leaning toward the conclusion that the 6970 may have been over hyped and is not as powerful as we were lead to believe. Maybe drivers will be released to extract the performance that we saw in Metro 2033 for other games and benchmarks, but we are not holding our breath after this follow up
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LOL, Metro and Crysis (the only games they tested) were not even slated as improvements in the AMD release notes. Yet they come to two different conclusions when presented with the same situations.

Copenhagen69 said:
lol, clicking the images is too much work? Would you have rather had them just big big images and have lots of scrolling to do?
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Yes. But in reality there are better ways to organize an article and charts.
 
True, there are better way to organize charts and info for the articles, I completely agree. Looking at other reviews on their site, however, they seem to be limited in space for the article, width wise. It looks like a bloggers type of formatting with the small borders, maybe wordpress is being used for their articles?
 
Lonyo said:
Check any other review site. They manage to have readable graphs presented on pages.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4137/...-6950-1gb-xfxs-radeon-hd-6870-black-edition/5
Imagine this, but with every graph only having 3 bars.

It's dumb to do it the way they have done it, and there's no reason for it.
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Hmmm, ya that does look really good. What do they use to make their charts with? Anyone know?

I think the TR charts look fine, but they need to fix how they are presented and maybe work some different color in or something. Like the anandtech charts have.
 
I don't know much about drivers but I find it interesting how they can just change some code and increase performance. Haven't they figured out the best way to do everything on the Fermi architecture yet? How many different variables could there be to do a specific function?
 
Insomniator said:
I don't know much about drivers but I find it interesting how they can just change some code and increase performance. Haven't they figured out the best way to do everything on the Fermi architecture yet? How many different variables could there be to do a specific function?
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The Fermi Arch. keeps changing. Not completely new, but it is changing. That is why they are up to GF114 silicon now. As they improve their cards it takes a little bit to figure them out to fix the drivers as well. :thumbsup:
 
cusideabelincoln said:
They don't even test the two games they did for the AMD article. That site is starting to look like a joke.



ROFL. Nice conclusion...



LOL, Metro and Crysis (the only games they tested) were not even slated as improvements in the AMD release notes. Yet they come to two different conclusions when presented with the same situations.


Yes. But in reality there are better ways to organize an article and charts.
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that made me chuckle 🙂

i'm detecting just a smidgen of bias from them......
 
almighty.peanut said:
that made me chuckle 🙂

i'm detecting just a smidgen of bias from them......
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Well the release notes are different from each AMD and Nvidia. Looking at their normal GPU reviews they did not have most of the AMD release notes games.

Although they should have tested non release note games like they did for Nvidia. Maybe they learned from the AMD driver testing to test more games? 😕
 
Nah, I say the site is a joke. They can test more games or retroactively go back and augment their articles. They were written by the same person; there's no better explanation than bias.

If you want to cite a fair and proper and comprehensive analysis then stick with Alienbabeltech. It's a far better view of the situation:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=23626
 
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