
Synthetics shared by Nvidia claim performance benefits of 7 – 16 percent on single GPU performance for DX11 games. Later, Nvidia stresses on optimising their drivers for optimum DirectX 11 performance. Nvidia did share their benchmark numbers for both single and SLI setups. Huge claims these, one we’re in the process of testing. The 337.50 drivers, as claimed by Nvidia, increase performance of single GPU setups by 64% and SLI by 71%. It sounds funny, after all, they’re just GPU drivers, but Nvidia seems to be really banking on them, and for good reason. Nvidia called for a big press meeting to announce their 337.50 Beta Drivers, it was the first time I was attending a webinar for the launch of a new drivers. A lack of resources to dedicate to older hardware (or, for the cynical, a gentle nudge to upgrade to a newer machine) might be to blame.We consider Nvidia to be generally more proactive that the competition when it comes to driver and feature support, and that trend seems to continue. Oddly, Intel does not say it’s working on a fix for the problem: If you need DirectX 12 support on this particular hardware, you’ll have to stay on an older version of the graphics driver. Games and other programs that rely on it will no longer run, but those with compatibility modes that can work with DirectX 11 or lower should be fine (with slightly less fidelity).

Users who upgrade their graphics card driver, or have it automatically updated through Windows, will lose the ability to use DirectX 12.


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