My Drivers Comparison benchmark in games Thread, Constantly Updated with new drivers

[wolf2009]

This is moved to this site, it will be updated here now. Plz understand, its easier for me to update one site .

http://hardwarebenchmark.googlepages.com/


Why am i doing what i'm doing ?

I felt that the hardware review sites never updated their reviews with the
latest drivers and the reviews were done with unmature drivers and this affects
the consumer's decision. What if HD 3870 is faster than 9600GT with its current
drivers? What if 8800GTS G92 is faster than 8800GTX with current drivers ? What
is the best driver out there ? No review out there answers this question. SO i felt
the need to answer this question so users can look at this thread and make a decision.
With this motivation i will use this thread to keep track of the performance improvements
with each and every driver release . Right now i have a 9600GT , so expect to see
Nvidia drivers benchmarks right now .But i may soon get my hands on a ATI card,
so i will add ATI drivers too to this thread . I will add new games too.

Right now i'm beginning with Call of Duty 4 and FEAR. Expect to see World in Conflict,
Company of Heroes, Crysis. I'll take ur requests for games and drivers .

NOTE : this thread will only show if there r any performance
improvements with the drivers, not a comparison against other cards. Also the hardware
will not be overclocked, to show the minimum performance u can get out of this hardware,
So with anything overclocked, expect better performance.
Also i dont think i will do 3DMark scores here, as i dont think they reflect gaming performance
and they can change so easily even with the same driver. If there is a majority request to that
benchmark, then i'll do it.

Here's the CPU'z and GPU'z screen that will be used always :
http://img.techpowerup.org/080615/Capture008.jpg
http://img.techpowerup.org/080615/Capture009479.jpg

NVIDIA

Call of Duty 4

The settings were as follows :

http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8061/cod4settings2zg0.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3739/cod4settings1qo7.jpg

The timedemos benchmarked were custom made by me. The maps were "Bog" and "Creek".
THe timedemo was run 5 times and bechmarked with FRAPS. the average fps is reported by
the extended console. If anyone needs the timedemos, i'll be happy to provide them.

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture075.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture076.jpg


FEAR

All settings were at maximum with 4xAA/16xAF , patched to v1.08

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture080.jpg


DEVIL MAY CRY 4 DEMO (DX10)
Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture079.jpg


WORLD IN CONFLICT
Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture081.jpg


COMPANY OF HEROES
Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture082.jpg


CRYSIS

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture077.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/080703/Capture078.jpg

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DAAMIT


Alright, ready for this ????

Now Showing : 1 Teraflop mini wonder -> HD4850


WATCHOUT : 8.6 Hotfix drivers show a decrease in fps in all games except FEAR and COH.

Lets deviate from order and get to the most impressive benchmark :

CRYSIS

1280x1024 2xAA , in built GPU test.

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture061341.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture062.jpg

Call of Duty 4

Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture063.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture064.jpg

FEAR

Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture069.jpg

DEVIL MAY CRY 4 DEMO (DX10)

Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture070.jpg

WORLD IN CONFLICT

Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture065.jpg

COMPANY OF HEROES

Everything maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA

http://img.techpowerup.org/080701/Capture066.jpg

Plz leave a thx , which will act as a motivation for me to continue this .

[wolf2009]

reserved

[wolf2009]

reserved for future benchmarks

[wolf2009]

this one too

[wolf2009]

this one too

[wolf2009]

177.26 drivers results added .

[OzzmanFloyd120]

I think this is a great idea, it's just too bad you don't have more GPUs to test this on. I would help, but it'd be kinda pointless.

[wolf]

werid tho mate, i have noticed a waaay bigger increase than this with mine, can you add the devil may cry 4 benchmark, and maybe a custom UT3 bench to the list? they are some of the games that have the biggest gains for me.

EDIT: also, if it serves the point of this post, you can add this stuff:


Q6600 @ 3591mhz
9800GTX @ 800/2000/2500
DDR2 @ 798mhz

1920x1200 All settings max + 4xMSAA

http://www.techpowerup.org/uploaded.php?file=080615/9800GTX_174_vs_177.jpg

Scene 1: +15.8%
Scene 2: +14.4%
Scene 3: +15.2%
Scene 4: +17.2%

[wolf2009]

177.35 results added . wolf u were right , devil may cry does see some gains , but that may be coz its a demo and nvidia r still optimizing their drivers for it. other than that company of heroes saw a better minimum framerate, but that may just be one frame as is the case with world in conflict. Other than that the games seem well optimized and drivers do not make a difference.

[Solaris17]

really good job man this is excellent thank you!!!

[wolf2009]

will be testing HD4850 with hotfix in single and crossfire and comparing it with 8.6 and post results in my thread here . Stay tuned . i'm so excited . my first dual gpu .

[Otto Octavius]

will be testing HD4850 with hotfix in single and crossfire and comparing it with 8.6 and post results in my thread here . Stay tuned . i'm so excited . my first dual gpu .

Glad to see someone doing this, has my thanks :)
Just remember to put up some benchs before applying the hotfix so we can compare hehe :)

[wolf2009]

Glad to see someone doing this, has my thanks :)
Just remember to put up some benchs before applying the hotfix so we can compare hehe :)

exactly, thats the point of this thread.

[pagalms]

Great job :toast:
P.S. 177.39's are out :rolleyes:

[farlex85]

Are you gonna add the physX drivers w/ some UT action maybe. I don't know all the games that support it now, but UT does at least on some maps, and vantage is ridiculous w/ it.

[wolf2009]

Are you gonna add the physX drivers w/ some UT action maybe. I don't know all the games that support it now, but UT does at least on some maps, and vantage is ridiculous w/ it.

alrite will do, but problem is no one has been able to get the physx drivers run on g94 i.e. 9600gt. g92 and gt200 have run on it. anyways i'll try on guru3d to look for wrking drivers for my card, or if pagalms makes a modded inf.

[farlex85]

alrite will do, but problem is no one has been able to get the physx drivers run on g94 i.e. 9600gt. g92 and gt200 have run on it. anyways i'll try on guru3d to look for wrking drivers for my card, or if pagalms makes a modded inf.

Ah true, sorry, I didn't realize you were running the 9600gt. I gotta read more carefully. :shadedshu Soon maybe.

[pagalms]

alrite will do, but problem is no one has been able to get the physx drivers run on g94 i.e. 9600gt. g92 and gt200 have run on it. anyways i'll try on guru3d to look for wrking drivers for my card, or if pagalms makes a modded inf.
Sorry, but i can't help here. I've searched my computer for Physx related inf's, but only one i found was in Ageia Physix folder and it's responsible for real Ageia Physix card recognition, not for CUDA enabled GPU's. So it depends on Nvidia when non GT200/G92 users will be able to run Physix on their cards.
;)

[wolf2009]

HD4850 with Catalyst 8.6 results added .

[WhoCares]

Processor clk ? HD48xx hotfix performance comparison ?

[wolf2009]

2x HD4850 CF performance added . Next, 8.6 hotfix performance .

[wolf2009]

new layout added, hope everyone will like this and find it easier to read . keep ur suggestions coming in .

[cdawall]

im curious how much of a change you will see with cats 8.7 on the 4850s

[newconroer]

Anything BUT 1280 res results?

[oli_ramsay]

Apparently the new nVidia 175.19 drivers take a pretty hefty performance hit http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=194&Itemid=1

Pretty shameful on nVidia's part :shadedshu

EDIT: See what I mean

3Dm06
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/video_cards/NVIDIA_Forceware/175.16_versus_175.19/3DMark06_1280x1024_9800-GX2.jpg

Crysis
http://benchmarkreviews.com/images/reviews/video_cards/NVIDIA_Forceware/175.16_versus_175.19/Crysis_1280x1024.jpg

[yogurt_21]

awesome, it's nice to see someone able to do this ona static platform and show the gains (or drops) as they come.

[zithe]

(@ oli ramsay's post to reduce load time)

That card is so strange. With one set of drivers the frame rate went UP when turning on 4x AA.....

Thanks for the topic, man! I've always wondered exactly how much things changed.

[wolf2009]

8.6 hotfix results added.


WATCHOUT : 8.6 Hotfix drivers show a decrease in fps in all games except FEAR and COH.

[erocker]

Man, I not trying to be a jerk or anything, but you seem to be the only one having problems with the hotfix drivers. We need to find a solution!:toast:

[wolf2009]

nvidia 177.41 results added , next up retest with hd4850 8.6 hotfix and 8.7 beta results .

[wolf2009]

will be moving all my results to one site here
http://hardwarebenchmark.googlepages.com/

its easy for me to update one site rather than in all forums .