Digit-Life have thrown up a 1 page editorial called New NVIDIA Driver Generation: Shader performance! which looks at the performance of pixel shaders 2.0 on NV3X based solutions!
NVIDIA's new drivers (v50.XX and higher) include enhanced and optimized compilers of vertex and pixel shaders, support for new texture formats and some other optimizations that do not affect image quality but foster the rendering speed. In this express test we will compare performance of drivers v40 and v50 to reveal how optimized the vertex and pixel shaders are in the new driver generation. We tested an average-level card based on the GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128 MB clocked at standard core and memory frequencies. As usual, we used the latest release of the DirectX 9 and the Windows XP Professional OS.
New NVIDIA Driver Generation: Shader performance
NVIDIA's new drivers (v50.XX and higher) include enhanced and optimized compilers of vertex and pixel shaders, support for new texture formats and some other optimizations that do not affect image quality but foster the rendering speed. In this express test we will compare performance of drivers v40 and v50 to reveal how optimized the vertex and pixel shaders are in the new driver generation. We tested an average-level card based on the GeForce FX 5600 Ultra 128 MB clocked at standard core and memory frequencies. As usual, we used the latest release of the DirectX 9 and the Windows XP Professional OS.
New NVIDIA Driver Generation: Shader performance
