jarblatter Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 Hello, just wanted to share the results of some benchmarking I did to compare the latest NVIDIA driver on Lenovo's Y500 support page and the generic driver provided by NVIDIA. There was only one anomaly: There was actually a decrease in performance using the NVIDIA driver without an overclock in the PLAGame Benchmark, specifically the drop in average frames without having the overclocked core and memory. Other than that, everything translated about as expected. For unforeseen causes...I was unable to get EVGA OC Scanner to use the GPU for the PhysX test, which is why I only used the CPU test. The GPU was overclocked using EVGA PrecisionX 5.2.3 I used EVGA OC Scanner 3.5.1.0 ... which simply counts the number of frames rendered for each test in a 60 second time frame and uses that as the score. And PLAGame Benchmark v1.0 Lenovo Driver (9.18.13.2762) EVGA OC Scanner: Furry E, fullscreen, 1920x1080, 4x MSAA Stock Clocks..........: 1198 +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1352 EVGA OC Scanner: Tesselation + DOF, fullscreen, 1920x1080, 4xMSAA Stock Clocks..........: 1626 +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1853 EVGA OC Scanner: PhysX Fluids v1 (CPU), 1920x1080, 4x MSAA Stock Clocks..........: 911 +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1034 PLAGame Benchmark, "Direct 11 high specs" preset Stock Clocks..........: Average, 57.5; Max, 94.6 +135 Core; +600 Memory: Average, 57.0; Max, 107.1 NVIDIA Driver (9.18.13.4411) EVGA OC Scanner: Furry E, fullscreen, 1920x1080, 4x MSAA Stock Clocks..........: 1211 (+13) +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1364 (+12) EVGA OC Scanner: Tesselation + DOF, fullscreen, 1920x1080, 4xMSAA Stock Clocks..........: 1655 (+29) +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1896 (+43) EVGA OC Scanner: PhysX Fluids v1 (CPU), 1920x1080, 4x MSAA Stock Clocks..........: 1047 (+136) +135 Core; +600 Memory: 1212 (+178) PLAGame Benchmark, "Direct 11 high specs" preset Stock Clocks..........: Average, 53.6; Max, 101.6 (-3.9 avg.; +7.0 max) +135 Core; +600 Memory: Average, 63.0; Max, 107.4 (+6.0 avg.; +0.3 max) Discussion is welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NonXtreme Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 I think that for the fair comparison, both should use the same driver version.In this case Lenovo driver is older v.327.62 while nvidia driver is newer v.344.11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealk3ks Posted November 16, 2014 Share Posted November 16, 2014 "NonExtreme" is right.Try to install the original v.327.62 driver and test again. ;-)I'm always using the original NVIDIA-Drivers and until now I'm good to go. ;-)The reason why I always choose the original driver is, because it gets updated. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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