Driver Comparison

[mmskate13]

Hey everyone, just thought i would compile a little research to help everyone out; i compared the 275.33 drivers with modded.inf and 280.26 drivers with modded.inf

I used 3dmark11 and did the testing with an overclock of 770/1540/900, no overclock on the cpu, running 6gb of DDR3 RAM at 1333mhz. The scores showed very little difference in benchmarking. Seeing that i do not have any games, i will not be able to play anything to test it out. The only way i could test something for you is if you gave me your steam logon and pass, and added me to your group of allowed users. No this is not an advertisement for me to play your games, so lets get to the actual results. My system build is in my signature.

Here are the results for the 275.33 drivers with modded.inf. Link to the 3dmark11 results: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669304;jsessionid=1d4deitoovo2q?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669304%3Fkey%3DajjmY9bbz4hM8tNcwRntAJ7ec6SnaM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669304;jsessionid=1d4deitoovo2q?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669304%3Fkey%3DajjmY9bbz4hM8tNcwRntAJ7ec6SnaM</a>'>http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669304;jsessionid=1d4deitoovo2q?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669304%3Fkey%3DajjmY9bbz4hM8tNcwRntAJ7ec6SnaM

And the results for the 280.26 drivers with modded.inf. Link to the 3dmark11 results: [url="http://<a href="http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669478;jsessionid=yscxubjd8fvr?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669478%3Fkey%3DADxVKL8LxmAUkaD9z8JTRDb9xufkWK" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669478;jsessionid=yscxubjd8fvr?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669478%3Fkey%3DADxVKL8LxmAUkaD9z8JTRDb9xufkWK</a>"]http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1669478;jsessionid=yscxubjd8fvr?show_ads=true&page=%2F3dm11%2F1669478%3Fkey%3DADxVKL8LxmAUkaD9z8JTRDb9xufkWK

Notice that there is only one point of difference. I would like to point out though that most drivers show their true purpose when playing games.

As a final note i would like to remind all Nvidia card users that are planning to update their drivers to please use the windows add/remove program feature in the control panel to get rid of the previous drivers before installing the new ones! Nvidia actually recommends this if you read through their driver guide. They claim that removing the files through using the device management uninstaller doesn't clear all of the files. These left-over files actually interfere with optimus.

Edited August 14, 2011 by mmskate13
Including 3dmark11 links

[Stevenxowens792]

1 thing that should also be noted is that I believe an update to 3dmark11 went out sometime after the release of 275.50 and before 280.26. I wonder if that impacted testing at all? Good post! Thanks so much.

[Ninjahunter]

oh, thats interesting, the CPU load was higher on the run with the 280.26. Who knows maby this driver could be worth TWO points. lol