As we started to analyse AMD and their Catalyst drivers as they release them, in the hope that performance may be improved in each new release, we thought that it would only be fitting if we gave Nvidia and their Forceware drivers the same golden star treatment.
Nvidia don’t seem to have much of a release plan or schedule as of late, and simply release updated drivers as they are ready, which generally means that the majority of bugs are fixes have been ironed out, but obviously they can’t guarantee this as with all new software, new bugs are spawned.
It is worth noting that Nvidia do release beta drives to the public but we will only be focussing on official released drivers much like 280.26 which is said to offer a lot of new features and support for 3D Vision, Photoshop and much more, but for now we’re going to take a look to see what improvements if any are noticeable in the set of benchmarks and games that we use on a day to day basis.
Release notes
[COLOR=#000000]This is the first WHQL-certified from the Release 280 family of drivers.You can read more about this family of drivers on GeForce.com.
This driver package supports GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500-series desktop GPUs as well as ION desktop GPUs. This driver package also includes the 3D Vision Controller driver.
New in Release 280.26
NVIDIA SLI
NVIDIA 3D Vision
[*]Update the following 3D Vision game profiles
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