Technical question - What goes into new video drivers?

futurefields

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When a big game like GTA5 or The Witcher 3 comes out.

What are Nvidia/AMD doing with their drivers in order to get more performance without changing the image quality?
 

BFG10K

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They produce a fast path through the driver which is unique to that application. This path includes optimizations for just that game.