Just a little performance test of the latest ForceWare 177.92 BETA versus the latest ForceWare 177.83 WHQL using oZone3D.Net OpenGL Benchmarks Suite and Lightsmark2008:
| Release 177.83 | Release 177.92 | Difference | |
| FurMark 1280×1024 | 4272 | 4272 | 0% |
| Soft Shadows Branching OFF | 6054 | 5817 | -4% |
| Soft Shadows Branching ON | 10198 | 9542 | -6.5% |
| Surface Deformer | 7721 | 7716 | 0% |
| FluidMark GeForce PhysX | 9626 | 9579 | -0.5% |
| FluidMark Software PhysX | 1495 | 1503 | 0% |
| Lightsmark2008 | 766.7 | 759.4 | 0% |
Well… many websites have claimed that release 177.92 brings a boost in performance. Maybe in Direct3D (I also ran Aquamark and 3DMark2006 under WinXP and I didn’t see differences) under Vista. But in OpenGL, there is no performance gain.
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