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Nella rete da alcuni giorni circolano i driver Forceware 81.26 Beta, primi driver della prossima generazione di release Revision 80.

VR-Zone mostra alcuni test che mettono in mostra le prestazioni dei nuovi driver in campo SLI e Dual Core. Di seguito alcuni test:

3D Mark05 Single Card Mode

3D Mark 05 Dual Card Mode

DooM 3

Vedendo questi test possiamo notare come vi sia un miglioramento in test sintetici come 3DMark05 con sistemi Dual Core e configurazione Dual Card SLI. In DooM 3 invece notiamo risultato simili nel confronto tra processori Single e Dual Core, ma un gran boost prestazionale rispetto ai driver 77.72.

Ecco inoltre una lista dei futuri cambiamenti previsti con la Rev 80 dei driver ForceWare:

NVIDIA SLI – more features and capabilities

  • Ability to use graphics cards from different vendors and use with different memory sizes

  • Dynamic SLI enabling/disabling

  • Auto display detection in SLI mode

  • Primary display switching in SLI

  • Upcoming games such as F.E.A.R and Quake 4 already have built-in SLI Profile

Mobile GPUs now supported in NVIDIA.com drivers

  • Mobile users can now get new features and performance with every driver update

  • OEMs like Alienware, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest allow NVIDIA.COM drivers to be enabled for their new GeForce Go notebooks

    Driver updates maintain all OEM hotkeys and power management settings

New multimedia and PureVideo HD enhancements

  • HDTV Enhancements such as Preview mode to determine panel capabilities, Fullscreen calibration tool, DVI hot-plugging, Japanese D-connectors, Hotkeys cycle HDTV modes

  • PureVideo Quality Improvements such as Improved 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown detection and correction, High Definition spatial-temporal de-interlacing support available for GeForce 6600 passive through GeForce 7800 GTX

Brand new NVIDIA Control Panel

  • Setting up and configuring NVIDIA hardware has never been easier

  • Easy to use control panel ensures best end user experience with over 2500+ hours of usability testing

  • Faster downloads and less system resources

  • Architected for Windows Vista