As the quest for more performance rolls on, both AMD and NVIDIA are working hard behind the scenes to really drive game performance with significant driver optimizations and the use of new APIs such as AMD's Mantle. These optimizations seemingly always find the magical 10+% performance boost month after month, and there has to be a break-even point somewhere, right? You would think at least, but here we go again.

NVIDIA has delivered its latest driver set, the 337 series, that looks to deliver performance gains across the board with some significant targeted gains in games using both single and multiple DX11 capable GPU combinations. What that means is that instead of relying on a new API for a performance boost, NVIDIA is showing that using the current DX11 API it can deliver performance optimizations that boost performance in all games. Further providing that all inclusive gaming experience, NVIDIA has included GeForce Experience 2.0 in this driver release that now has been updated with profiles for 150 games.

When you look at the potential gains, you may or may not see the maximum benefit in some of the games you play. I say potential because the list below says "UP TO" X%. The only way to truly know what you will see is to test these combinations and come up with a reasonable conclusion as to how the drivers perform on a current high performance build. To do that we will use our OCC video card test bed and run a few of the combinations through a few tests to see how well the new 337.50 beta drivers perform.