patkoscsaba - NVidia Drivers 180.51, 180.53, 185.18.04 vs. previouse

NVidia Drivers 180.51, 180.53, 185.18.04 vs. previouse

Friday, 24. April 2009, 20:44:59

Testing setup of Unigine:

Sanctuary demo benchmark edition v2.1
Settings
Render:opengl
Mode:640x480 windowed
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:16x
Translucence:enabled
Parallax:enabled
Reflection:enabled
DOF:disabled
HDR:disabled

Tropics Demo v1.1
Settings
Render:opengl
Mode:640x480 windowed
Shaders:high
Textures:high
Filter:trilinear
Anisotropy:4x
Occlusion:disabled
Reflection:enabled
Refraction:enabled
Volumetric:enabled

First chart is Sanctuary, second is Tropics

Personal Conclusion:
- there was a significant performance increase in graphics performance with the latest 3 drivers
- 180.51 Final and 180.53 Prerelease performed exactly identical
- in all tests, the brand new 185.18.04 Beta driver was the fastest, and it looks also stable enough for general use

NVidia Driver 180.41PR vs. previous releasesPrimul meu model Blender

Comments

Anonymous # 28. April 2009, 09:41

Anonymous writes:

could you also test with mandriva 2009.1 vs 2009.0, I think there was some performance regression

patkoscsaba # 28. April 2009, 11:40

Yes, of course. I installed mdv2009.1 yesterday, but it's on 64bits...
I will do today or tomorrow some more tests. I'm curious too to see the difference. Also, it seems like Unigine has only 32bit versions, but it should work.

I'll be back soon with new test and additional information.

Anonymous # 28. April 2009, 12:32

Anonymous writes:

hey thanks maybe you can place the results in the cooker forum too :D

patkoscsaba # 28. April 2009, 16:23

tested the beta driver on 64 ... see the new post here: http://my.opera.com/patkoscsaba/blog/2009/04/28/nvidia-driver-185-18-04-x86-64-vs-previous

Anonymous # 7. May 2009, 08:46

Anonymous writes:

hey thanks :)

patkoscsaba # 7. May 2009, 11:15

You are welcome, and follow my blog, further tests will come as soon as new drivers are released.